A Study on Media Cannibalism (2022) – single-channel video 4’40” - is part of the research project The Trauma of Looking: Readings and Counter-readings of the representation of femicides in the Greek mainstream media. It is a work that aims to decode the narrative strategies used by the Greek mainstream media to report sensitive topics related to gender inequalities and gender-based violence. In this work I explore the tropes and the effects of media cannibalism through the lens of intimate femicides - a phenomenon which has recently entered the wider public discourse in Greece.
Counter-readings of femicidal media imagery (2022) – mixed media installation - is part of the research project The Trauma of Looking: Readings and Counter-readings of the representation of femicides in the Greek mainstream media. The pile is composed by images circulated in the Greek mainstream media for the reporting of femicides in 2021. It is inaccessible, making at the same time visible the amount of imagery available in the media and invisible their sensationalized and unethical content. The collective trauma depicted in the images needs to be openly discussed, mourned and potentially resolved. Thus the pile is destroyed, turned into a paper pulp where knowledge can come through olfactive communication, which contributes to the photographic meaning, creating an environment for the affective experience of images. Finally, from the paper pulp emerges new paper where new histories (and images) can be written. The question of course remains, by whom and for whom?
This symbolic gesture is not erasing the violence of complicity, but rather uncovers and brings to light the suppressed narratives concealed within the original images.
A footnote in the world history (2022) – single channel video - The project revolves around the recent history of Germany's reunification and explores the inconsistencies between dominant historical narratives and personal memory. It entangles different memories of people who lived in the GDR (East Germany), reiterated by younger Germans, detaching thus the emotionality from the memory itself.
Although it takes place in an area that does not exist anymore, a non-place - the inner border of GDR - it shows a perpetual struggle of escaping and seeking new opportunities.
*๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐๐๐๐๐ 14-๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ณ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ช๐ฑ๐ป๐ช๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ-๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ต ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฌ๐ช.
**๐๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐จ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ 1378 (๐ฌ๐ฎ), ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ยฉ ๐. ๐. ๐๐ต๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ.
The fossils, the ashes and other remains of existence (2021) - is a photographic work visualizing the complexity and the many different stages of experiencing loss. It aims to open up an unusual ontological dimension of the way we understand death through our connections to physical objects and the active involvement in the photographic event.
The project emerged from a personal trauma - the loss of my father, and my urgency to accept the incompleteness a death brings. Arriving back home several days after his death due to COVID-19 restrictions, I decided to spend several days in his house as his presence still felt very strong. By using only what was available to me in his 64m2 apartment I started creating surreal situations that would serve later as our last (prosthetic) memories together. Through this active engagement in the process, photography became a tool for post-traumatic healing. The outcome is a posthumous exploration together with an incorporeal protagonist that signifies at the same time presence and absence.
Future Relics (2021) - is a collaborative project together with artist Ben Yau, realized during our wanderings in the Wadden Sea islands.
After our encounters with the locals and the stories they shared with us regarding marine pollution, the changes of the sea-life and the fishing in the area, we decided to experience ourselves the effects of climate crisis on the island. By using walking on the beach, microcosmic looking and collecting as our main research method, we soon came to realize that in a closer look on this sand lied our fossilised future. Embedded within the present moment were relics of the past that act as forecasts of the future. Future Relics goes beyond what is visible operating into the potential realm of future ecologies.