Photo: Pàtric Marín

The ZOO photography exhibition is an attempt to highlight the multiple identities and elements of diversity in the city today. The Zoo, a place with a unique logic of organization,
where animals from different parts of the world coexist in a miniature of their natural environment, becomes a comprehensive vehicle for the city. Fifteen artists in fifteen selected public places of the city compose a new allegory, a new field of emerging places and images.

«ZOO – Zones Of Otherness»
Artists – Venues:
1.Fatima Abreu Ferreira – Monumental complex of Dodeka Apostoli, 27 Paparigopoulou str.
2.Elena Geroska – Ι.Κ.Α., 19 Aristotelous str.
3.Nilbar Güreş – Pier A’ Port of Thessaloniki, Museum of Photography
4.Pepa Hristova –O.S.E. Train Station, 71 Monastiriou str.
5.Elí Joteva – 16 Pl. Navarinou
6.Natasa Kantemiri – State Conservatory, 15 Fragkon str.
7.Tereza Kourra – Karavan Serai, Venizelou & Ioustinianou str.
8.Thibault Lévêque – entrance of AUTh Engeeniring School, Egnatia str.
9.Pàtric Marín – Pier A’ Port of Thessaloniki, Water Supply Building
10.Aleksandra Mihajlovic – 15th High school of Thessaloniki, Georgiou Stavrou & Karolou Dil str.
11.Davide Monteleone – Manoli Anagnostaki Square, Aminta & Platonos str.
12.Alexandra Pace – Pl. Emporiou ή Commerce Square, 1 Agiou Mina str.
13.Laura Sisteró – Y.M.C.A. Thessaloniki, 136 Tsimiski str.
14.Yorgos Yatromanolakis – HelloFrom, 45 Proxenou Koromila str.
15.Lily Zoumpouli – Kapani (Vlali market), 45 Ermou str.

The complex world of the zoo is being used as a theoretical starting point for the concept of the photography exhibition of 15 young artists from Northern Europe as part of this year’s SKG BRIDGES. The internal incompatibilities and tensions of zoo, a place with a unique internal organizational logic, where animals from different parts of the world, each in a miniature of its natural surroundings, compose a supralocal allegory, forming a field of multiple emerging places and images, multiple intakes of identity and alterity. The chosen pieces, scattered around 15 sites in the city, in plain view, act as vehicles for the representation of those kind of forms of identity and alterity in today’s urban space.

Organisation: MoMUS – Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
Curatorial team & Graphic Design: Post-Spectacular Office
Collaborators: Vasilis Gkountinas, Lily Zoumpouli

Duration: 08-19/05, visiting hours according to the opening hours of each place
Free Entrance