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| Myrto Apostolidou In her photographic work, the artist captures familiar and intimate landscapes, photographed in an unfamiliar way. It is like witnessing the moment before something truly awful happens, she adds. In these landscapes/ architectural urban reality setting, we perceive the transitional stage just before the outburst, the moment that will lead to the eruption. The familiar yet dark and eerie buildings communicate and interact with human forms on the first level of the images. In a way, they enhance the substance of the forms. The repetitiveness and homogeneity of the image coexists with the architectural monotony of the building, while a zigzag staircase appears to break up the building’s linearity behind its armoured form, like a bolt of lightning. Their common element is the uniform, whether it offers protection and refuge, or causes fear. In any case, it determines the identity of the persons wearing it, while also giving them the magical quality of a lack of characteristics and therefore identity. The reading of the social roles of buildings and people, as well as their personal histories, is enmeshed and vacillates between what we think we know and what is actually hidden behind the helmets and shields. Evi Papavergou  Download CV |  Shining Armour |
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