The exhibition featured six contemporary Greek artists whose common ground is their participation in the recent editions of the Athens Photo Festival. The exhibition title highlights the fragile perspective of the passage within a liminal space of the absence of presence.
This route signals the cycle transitions of life, death, and rebirth. It provides a glimpse into a world made from rituals, metaphors, imprints, and transformed objects. The works examine ideas of spirituality, religion, community, family, loss, and passage of time.
The artists use their personal memories as a reference to explore the concept of liminality and how it can affect our mental existence. Memory is seen as a dynamic experience and spatial connection with the past and the present. Their evocative imagery bring the viewer in a limbo between fiction and reality, drawing new transitions from dawn to dusk, or from light to shadow.
The exhibition engages universal rites of passage and specific life trajectories in Greece as a country between the old and the new, the past, the present, and the future.
Production: Hellenic Center of Photography
In the Framework: Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale à Niort
Curated by Manolis Moresopoulos
Artists: Catherine Chatzidimitriou, Marilia Fotopoulou, Myrto Papadopoulos, Kosmas Pavlidis, Ioanna Sakellaraki, Yiannis Theodoropoulos
Papadopoulou explores a place where history of industrial growth and decline intermingles with ancient myths about life, death and rebirth. Inspired by his childhood memories, Pavlidis visits the landmarks of his early summer days that have long been left to the whims of time and nature. Chatzidimitriou examines stereotypes concerning married life and the roles that a woman is called upon to deal with. Theodoropoulos transforms common objects in unexpected ways, producing images of ephemeral ‘experiential sculptures’. Fotopoulou records and interprets a practice and a custom associated with loss and the mystery of death. Inspired by ancient Greek laments, Sakellaraki explores grieving methods and ancestral mourning rituals within traditional Greek communities.
