7 September – 12 October 2012/ Bey Hamam
These two exhibitions are presented in Bey Hamam Thessaloniki as part of the Parallel Program of the PhotoBiennale, organized by the Museum of Photography Thessaloniki in collaboration with the 9th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities.
_In Situ. Constructed Identities
Νikos Evangelopoulos
“I become the place where I am”.
Nikos Evangelopoulos works’ are always adapted in situ. The constructed photograph is itself a visual arts incident, by encompassing all arts in order to overcome the Real (realistic).
In the end the medium is so intertwined with representation –with the mirror- that is overcomes its specificity and can be used as a means of exploring.
Photographs become photo-metaphors: they use their information like a form of writing, like shadows of ideas which are recorded on our collective memory. In this context, the viewer encounters photographic works and collages created, sculptures created by layers of paper; in this manner realism, abstraction and randomness intertwine in a dialogue between art and life in either a poetic, a psychoanalytic or a narrative manner. These interchanges which explore the limits of the image and its presence have become an intrinsic part of the artist’s journey this past fifteen years – an autobiographic search.
Nikos Evangelopoulos CV
Born in 1964 in Athens. He lives and works in Paris, France. He studied photography at the School of Photography and Visual Arts FOCUS in Athens and holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts (Arts Plastiques) from University of Paris VIII (Université de Vincennes, Saint-Denis). He also received a scholarship for tutorials and workshops at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, West Surrey, Farnham, UK. He has realized a series of lectures and workshops in Greece and abroad. He has worked as a professional photographer and as photography professor, while he was also academic director (1996-2005) at FOCUS School Photography and Visual Arts. He has been photo editor of many publications and has worked as a photographer in museums and art spaces. Ηe is a lecturer at University of Paris VIII, Plastic Arts Department, and participates in the research group ““Pôle Méditerranée” initiated by Paris 8 Vincennes University, Saint-Denis. He has participated in exhibitions in Greece and abroad. He is also a member of La Maison des Artistes.
www.nikosevangelopoulos.com
Atonement of Shadow
Maria Mitzali
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Carl Jung
Τhe idea of the work, which is specifically designed for this space, is to create a small temporary shrine in the centre of the city dedicated to the body, showing in public the daily private “ritual” of washing. An ode what is gone, to what changes, to what is alive, to what is human.
These projections blend in with the architectural structure of the place. It is at home, at the private space of one’s bathroom where the intrinsic relationship of one with his body appears. There effortlessly, under the shower, comes a moment of self-awareness which has no fear, no shame nor guilt and is nothing more than a purification and then reconciliation with what we tend to dismiss, to push aside – with what Jung described as the Shadow.
Maria Mitzali CV
Born in Athens in 1976. She studied Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Art and Design and Middlesex University, UK. In 1997 she participated in an exchange student program in collaboration with FAMU, the Czech School of Cinema and Photography in Prague. In 2000 she attended film seminars at New York Film Academy in New York. She has worked as an assistant in advertising and fashion studios and as camerawoman and assistant producer for television productions as well as independent movies and documentaries. She has also worked as an art director in a hotel renovation project. Her works are part of private collections and has been presented in group and solo exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Exhibition Contributors (Atonement of Shadow)
Production management: 2monochannels
Technical design – Production: Hercules and George Lambropoulos
Editing: Alexis Kanakis
Special constructions: Dimitris Stamatakis
Programming: Vasilis Boukis Sound design – music: Spiros Moschoutis
Bey Hamam Thessaloniki (Egnatia Str. & Aristotelous Square, +302310226931)
Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday 09.00 – 14.30