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Alexi-Meskhishvili examines the space of translation, what lies between an image and its referent, one language and another, and how a photograph can transmit the immersive instability of what lies outside of reason. Challenging traditional notions of photography as impersonal, or documentarian, this new group of works look at the capacity for an image to refer to the immaterial, the personal, and the direct.

In 'I Am Your Slice' and 'Danama', Alexi-Meskhishvili manipulates the large format negative directly through folds and scratches. Here, the impression made on the …