Short Stories of Entrapment_2002 | Μικρές Ιστορίες Εγκλεισμού
Self performances | color photography (size variable)
This photographic series consists of 'stories', that I set up, execute in front of the camera. My goal is to approach, experientially and visually, symbolic situations of inclusion through a process of short improvisations.
During these improvisations, I play roles that are essentially variations of the same claustrophobic character. Placed in miniatures of spaces, which refer to places of isolation and direct supervision, I coexist with familiar objects, which, however, are transformed by their use into tools of trapping and restraint, causing suffocation because of the inability of the characters to move and escape.
Each 'imprisoned' character is thus conftronted with a paradoxical "reality" that he could have constructed himself and in which he was probably left trapped without realizing it.
Self performances | color photography (size variable)
This photographic series consists of 'stories', that I set up, execute in front of the camera. My goal is to approach, experientially and visually, symbolic situations of inclusion through a process of short improvisations.
During these improvisations, I play roles that are essentially variations of the same claustrophobic character. Placed in miniatures of spaces, which refer to places of isolation and direct supervision, I coexist with familiar objects, which, however, are transformed by their use into tools of trapping and restraint, causing suffocation because of the inability of the characters to move and escape.
Each 'imprisoned' character is thus conftronted with a paradoxical "reality" that he could have constructed himself and in which he was probably left trapped without realizing it.