About This Project

Antigone Kourakou

The work of Antigone Kourakou (b. 1979, Greece) discreetly leads us to the threshold of a quite unanticipated, silent introspection. By stirring up deep-rooted images and moments, her photography prompts the viewer to fill in the blanks. These elliptical scenes and oblique personas define unresolved circumstances that ignite our imaginative faculties. Faces, gestures, branches, leaves, thick shadows – together they signify an enigmatic world. What lies at the core of her work is not so much reality as encountered; it is more concerned with the quest for an equilibrium – a parity between the mundane (female) world and a fictional escape from it. The line between fact and fiction is blurred in our day and age. We are swirling from one interlude to the next, a perpetual motion of incidents, adventures and events. Kourakou is sensitive to the states of being that result from these fluctuations, the vibrations of a life in flux. But she manages to embrace such confusion, the shadow of things, the drift, with a timeless and serene aesthetic. The title episodes derives from «επεισόδιον». The original meaning depicts a structural element of the Greek tragedy, literally meaning “additional entrances“, a narrative tool of incidents and events that analogically are used to describe the photographic sequencing. This series is a collection of photos chronically spanning in a long period of photographic experimentation but “synchronized” in their manifestation and mood. “Episodes” are emotional snapshots of a fragmented story, giving space to the observers’ own poetry to decipher the cause, the plot and the epilogue. Costis Antoniadis (b.1949, Greece) is emeritus Professor of Photography at the University of West Attica. He is also a photographer, freelance curator, editor and author of numerous essays and articles on photography.

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