ENG GR Yan Ming’s photographs from “Country Of Ambition” offer the viewer an ironic and, sometimes, cynical view of China. His pictures hint at both the industrialisation of the country, the increasing urban-rural divide, as well as the ability of the Chinese people to cope with this unprecedented change in their lives, with stoicism and …
ENG GR Often, we come across images which have very little in common regarding their subject, yet which seem to be closely resembled. It is a sort of unintentional recollection, where retained images in our memory appear in newly encountered situations, phenomena, or objects. Some might call it Déjà vu – as an anomaly of …
ENG GR I am not an astronomer – while I can barely name a few constellations stargazing brought me comfort whenever life felt too narrow and systems too oppressive. In times of capitalism and its symptomatic fetish of light, I explore the act of stargazing as a path towards a gentle emancipation, of accessing space …
ENG GR The series The Model Family is an exploration into identity through portraits of my immediate family. I am interested in the intimate progression of individuals over time, the body’s ability to convey emotion and experience through gesture and the ambiguity of the family photograph, specifically the ambiguity of a single image or moment …
ENG GR In Tibet, red is the color of robes and temples. It is the symbolic color of Tibetan Buddhism, also the sacred representation of chastity and perseverance. As Chinese authorities’ control over Tibet tightens, Tibetan Buddhism, once intertwined with politics, gradually grows indifferent toward politics. The monastic codes embedded in the religion: contentment, and …
eng I consider photographs to be traces of reality. Fragments, transformations that convey information in a non- linear mode. They are expanding our perception, they constitute a reality in the second degree, narrower but more dramatic (Susan Sontag). According to Walter Benjamin, in them we recognize images of our unconscious. For many years, among what …
eng The series entitled “Perpetual Motif” includes photos of the last eight years from his own fantastic city, which is perceived through a puzzle of fragmentary images from various cities that he has visited and photographed. gr Η ενότητα με τίτλο “Perpetual Motif” περιλαμβάνει φωτογραφίες των τελευταίων οχτώ ετών μέσα στην πόλη -μια δική του …
eng At home I always used to linger with curiosity at an old photograph of some of my Andalusian relatives. With the passing of years this photograph has given me an image of how I think Andalusia might be. “SW” is the result of approximately three years of research in the south of Spain, an …
