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 …
Øyvind Hjelmen BROKEN SHADOW ENG GR Øyvind Hjelmen’s images evoke intimacy and a poetic appeal to memory. They are real-life moments captured in silver halide, that spark passion and dreaming. The dream that is triggered by thought. In the fragile environment created -with tenacity and surprise still present- we enter the artist’s imagination and delve …
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 …
Ruth Kaplan BATHERS ENG GR “Bathers” by Canadian photographer Ruth Kaplan explores the social theatre of communal bathing. Kaplan began this ten-year project in 1991, photographing bathers in hot springs, bathhouses and hamams from California to Eastern Europe, and from Western Europe high-tech spas to Icelandic hot springs and Moroccan traditional bathhouses, where social bonding is …
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 …
Francesco Merlini THE FLOOD eng “Tragedy in classical theory is supposed to inspire both pity and terror, but the daily horror and violence of world news often leave us struggling to produce those responses. No one can really feel on cue the emotions apparently required of us by a daily news stream of anniversaries of …
