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Leo Gallery collaborating artist Tamara Kvesitadze presents her solo exhibition Medea - Fragments of Memory at Palazzo Bragadin in Venice, held concurrently with the 2026 Venice Biennale. The exhibition is curated by Eka Enukidze & Hervé Mikaeloff and supported by KORNFELD Galerie Berlin, Atelier Visconti, and the David Bezhuashvili Education Foundation. It has officially opened on May 9, 2026, and on view till October 31, 2026.
The exhibition takes the ancient Greek mythological figure of Medea as its point of departure. The artist transforms her into a condition of existence: exile, fragmentation, and emotional displacement, traversing temporal and geographical boundaries. Venice itself is described by Kvesitadze as "one of the most vulnerable incarnations of architectural memory"-a city suspended between preservation and disappearance. This tension is embedded directly into the central installation of the exhibition.
The exhibition features a range of newly created kinetic sculptures and works on paper by Kvesitadze. Red Reptile extends from floor to ceiling, composed of fragmented female feet, symbolizing transformation and survival. Revolving womanis a slowly rotating kinetic sculpture that embodies the state of exile, caught between belonging and estrangement, refusing to be contained within a single direction. Large suspended panels of red and blue paper, their surfaces marked by fissures and stratifications, function as visual sediments of time.
In an interview with ARTnews, Kvesitadze remarked: "Medea is a structure of contradictions-love, exile, intelligence, violence, and transformation all coexist within her. She represents a state of being that resists stable definition." On the fragmentation of memory, she further noted: "Memory does not exist as a continuous or stable narrative. It manifests fragmentarily, through ruptures, distortions, and repetitions."
