Νίκη Σπάρταλη

- EXHIBITION -

"Redefining"

Photography School of Niki Spartali in Rhodes, Greece

Exhibition Duration:

April 29 - May 8, 2022​

Venue:

L' Auberge de France
Old Town, Rhodes

Pandemic. Silence. Masks everywhere. Safety distances. Distances from acquaintances and loved ones. Introversion. Lonely walks on paths of the island. Air, nature, oxygen. Silence. TV news. Numbers, percentages, deaths. Violence. Human cries. Abuse. Murders of females. Introversion. Walking in the city. Waving good morning to an acquaintance. Air, rain, oxygen, breath. Silence. News again. Fires, disasters, all over the country. Summer. Heat. Blackouts. Suffering. Silence. Winter again. News. War. Images of destruction, horror. Silence.

I need to see another side of life. I need to see the future differently. Life. I want to believe that it has two sides. That negatives do not outweigh positives. That people interact and are optimistic. That everything is not unfair. That when the landscape is a blur it takes patience and faith that it will be clear again. That time will redefine us and the sweet moments of the past are not lost forever.

Niki Spartali

Photographer / Exhibition Curator

The exhibition is based on the form of diptychs. Two images stand side by side to either highlight a contrast or to unite the two sides that may exist in every interaction, every search, every decision—through color, theme, or meaning.

The exhibition also features images created during the workshop on Conceptual Portraiture, organized by the Photography School in October 2021, with guest photographer Christiana Petousaki.

With the participation of: Konstantinos Arvanitidis, Giorgos Gkiouloglou, Smaragdi Deligianni, Michalis Diasinos, Georgia Kazoulli, Vasileia Kefala, Nikonas Kopsias, Katerina Manetta, Charalampos Mastrandonis, Anastasios Mousellis, Theodora Bouchouna, Pavlos Breyiannis, Ioanna Ikonomou, Dimitris Pampakas, Michalis Pampakas, Zoi Papavasili, Afroditi Patouna, Viktoriya Petkova, Kalliopi Chatzipapa

Photography School of Niki Spartali in Rhodes, Greece

Exhibition Duration:

April 29 - May 8, 2022​

April 29 - May 8, 2022​

Venue:

L' Auberge de France
Old Town, Rhodes

Pandemic. Silence. Masks everywhere. Safety distances. Distances from acquaintances and loved ones. Introversion. Lonely walks on paths of the island. Air, nature, oxygen. Silence. TV news. Numbers, percentages, deaths. Violence. Human cries. Abuse. Murders of females. Introversion. Walking in the city. Waving good morning to an acquaintance. Air, rain, oxygen, breath. Silence. News again. Fires, disasters, all over the country. Summer. Heat. Blackouts. Suffering. Silence. Winter again. News. War. Images of destruction, horror. Silence.

I need to see another side of life. I need to see the future differently. Life. I want to believe that it has two sides. That negatives do not outweigh positives. That people interact and are optimistic. That everything is not unfair. That when the landscape is a blur it takes patience and faith that it will be clear again. That time will redefine us and the sweet moments of the past are not lost forever.

Niki Spartali

Photographer / Exhibition Curator

The exhibition is based on the form of diptychs. Two images stand side by side to either highlight a contrast or to unite the two sides that may exist in every interaction, every search, every decision—through color, theme, or meaning.

The exhibition also features images created during the workshop on Conceptual Portraiture, organized by the Photography School in October 2021, with guest photographer Christiana Petousaki.

With the participation of: Konstantinos Arvanitidis, Giorgos Gkiouloglou, Smaragdi Deligianni, Michalis Diasinos, Georgia Kazoulli, Vasileia Kefala, Nikonas Kopsias, Katerina Manetta, Charalampos Mastrandonis, Anastasios Mousellis, Theodora Bouchouna, Pavlos Breyiannis, Ioanna Ikonomou, Dimitris Pampakas, Michalis Pampakas, Zoi Papavasili, Afroditi Patouna, Viktoriya Petkova, Kalliopi Chatzipapa

“Imaginatively, the photograph represents that very delicate moment where, indeed, I am neither a subject nor an object, but rather a subject that feels like becoming an object: then I experience a micro-experience of death: I truly become a spectrum, I have become everything – image, that is, death in person. The others – the Other – take away my identity, turn me inhuman, into an object, keep me at their mercy, at their disposal “

Roland Gérard Barthes 1915 – 1980

French literary theorist, philosopher, critic and semiologist

Photography is no longer an innocent way of capturing our visual world.

It ceased to be innocent as it is framed by methods of representation that are – involuntarily or voluntarily on the part of the artist – ideologically charged. The focus is now on the social role of the work, its philosophical dimension and its impact on the public. The conceptual portrait is ourselves, either as image creators or as recipients of it. They are our feelings, our references, our perceptions, our values ​​and our demands. It is our need for a world where empathy and logic will leave their mark around us equally.

Photography runs through its own language!

Whether it is accompanied by a text or not, the viewer is “doomed” to seek a specific meaning that, of course, is non-existent. Analyzing any photograph, it is like any image in general: it can only be subjective as it is determined by social behaviors of both sides (creator-viewer). Conjunctures, space-time are an endless labyrinth in human perception. Each photograph is in itself a text, a word, thousand of words… a scream!

What differentiates, however, the conceptual portrait of the exposure of emotions we present to you, from the common images of our visual perception, are provocative, multifaceted, and unpredictable photographs offered especially in this period of apparent stagnation.

The questions, the feelings and the looks that move constantly on the altar of destruction and that bittersweet feeling of “screaming”…

And now what;

Christiana Petousaki

Photographer / Curator & Prof. of Photographic Arts

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