Workshop: Books, photographic archives and fictions
Date/Time
19/03/2023
12:00 - 14:00
Location
B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music
The activity brings together narrative forms, archival document and books. What is the potential outcome of a re-reading of books and texts that form part of our genealogical roots? In which way do narratives and poetic readings haunt our family album, and the other way round? The artist will undertake a second, closer reading and appropriation of a series of books that inspired his work Let Us Stop and Weep, as narrative windows that unlock stories of a repressed, past life. He will establish his dialogue with them by means of visual interventions, recognizing the importance they hold as part of a legacy of memories inextricably linked to the individual and collective experiences of uprooting and exile.
Narrators: Georges Salameh, Natasha Christia
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Time: 12:00 – 14:00
Free entrance
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*The event takes place as a part of the THF Raw exhibition, Scaffolding
BIOS
Georges Salameh is an artist and filmmaker. His artwork and practice deal with an idiosyncratic experience of sedimentation, both in a physical and a metaphysical sense, through a creative comparison of reality, languages and narrations. His raw materials are files, recordings, images, which arise through peripatetics, gestures, reconstructions, and a sense of listening. He has lived in Lebanon, Cyprus, France, Sicily and Egypt. For the last six years, he has been residing and working in Athens. In his first contact with cinema and photography, two decades ago, he tried to embrace Athens, the city that shaped him, not for what it should be or for what he wanted it to be, but for what it is and eluded him. The result was a series of short films and photographic series recollected under the title Cahiers de la paix 1998- 2006. Since 1998, he has been exhibiting photographic installations and videos, documentaries and experimental films in Greece and abroad. Since 2009, he is the co-founder of the production and publishing platform MeMSéA. His artworks form part of private and public collections.
Natasha Christia is an unaffiliated curator, writer and educator based in Barcelona. Ηer research focuses on the way photography, archive, film and the photobook interact with the 21st century artistic avant-garde, contributing to a revision and renewal of the dominant narrative forms and ideological myths of contemporary visual culture. She has curated various exhibitions, among them, AMORE: An Unfinished Trilogy by Valentina Abenavoli (Void/Athens Photo Festival, 2017), Dragana Jurišić: My Own Unknown (Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 2017), Reversiones (Centro de la Imagen, Mexico DF, 2017), Lukas Birk: Travelogue Sammlung (Galerie Lustenau, Austria 2018), You Are What You Eat (Krakow Photomonth 2019), and ACTS I-VII by Oculi, (PHOTO 2022 Ιnternational Festival of Photography-Benalla Gallery, Australia). She regularly contributes essays on photography criticism for international publications and for artists.
