TBC Concept Gallery presents ‘We Are Seekers’, a collaborative exhibition by Georgian photographer and filmmaker David Meskhi and Berlin-based American artist Tony Just, curated by LC Queisser. The exhibition opens on 14 November from 18:00 to 20:00 at the gallery’s Marjanishvili 7 location and will be on view Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 20:00. The show unites two artists whose practices explore perception, memory and transformation through distinct yet complementary visual languages.
“A seeker is someone who is searching and looking. This exhibition provided a context for me to reexamine how I make images. I came to this work seeking change. I was not after a single image but a selection of pictures from several bodies of work which create an atmosphere of uncertainty. Athletes removed from the mat, stripped of their original meaning and environment. These images are manipulated physically and digitally. It feels as though I’m moving through shadows towards something which is not yet fully seen, where both presence and absence can co-exist,” David Meskhi stated.
Tony Just has lived and worked in Berlin for the past 17 years. His work has been exhibited internationally, including in Tbilisi, where he participated in the Propaganda residency in 2021–2022 and taught at the VA(A)DS at the Free University of Tbilisi. During that time, he presented a mural and artist books exhibition at Kona Books, curated by Nina Akhvlediani, and was part of the group show ‘Sanctuary’ at LC Queisser.
David Meskhi, born in 1979 in Tbilisi, studied photography and cinema at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University. Growing up in a sports environment, with his father serving as a gymnastics coach for the national Soviet team, Meskhi often draws from physical movement and the body in his imagery. In 2015, he co-directed the award-winning documentary ‘When the Earth Seems to Be Light’, a portrait of Georgia’s disenchanted youth. In 2024, the Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC+) hosted his first solo museum exhibition in France.
