Episodes
by Antigone Kourakou
Meet the Artist
Monday 8th August 2022
9:00 pm
On Monday 8th August at 9 pm we invite to the opening of the exhibition of Antigone Kourakou and to exchange a small conversation and a glass of wine with the artist herself.
It is not a secret: we admire the work of Greek photographer Antigone Kourakou, and it is an honour to have her with us on Monday 8th August.
Her new work will lead us to the threshold of an entirely 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.
About the exhibition
The exclusive exhibition Episodes encompasses the new work of the award-winning photographer Antigone Kourakou.
The title of the exhibition derives its meaning from the literal meaning of the word "episodes" which in ancient Greek tragedy means "additional entries", incidents or scenes that are introduced in the narration of a story.
This exhibition consists of a series of photographs that, while taken over a long period of photographic experimentation, are introduced and incorporated into an expressively coherent visual narrative. The Episodes in Kourakou's work are presented as emotional snapshots of a fragmented story, giving the viewer the space to decipher the cause, the plot and its epilogue.
About the artist
Antigone Kourakou lives and works in Athens, Greece. Though she first became interested theoretically and technically with photography in 1998, it was 2010 when the medium became a continuing means of seeking and expressing a personal aesthetic sensibility. Since that time, her photographic work has been exhibited in Greece (Athens Photo Festival 2018, Parallel Voices Photometria International Photography festival 2017) and abroad (Fotonostrum Gallery - Spain 2021, Aperture Foundation Gallery - USA 2019, Festival La Quatrieme Image - France 2017, Med Photo Fest - Italy 2017 ) and published in international magazines, catalogues and online publications.
She was finalist in LensCulture Black & White Photography Awards 2018 and winner in Category Black & White – Single image of 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for women photographers (Non-Professional Section). In 2022, her first monograph Transfiguration was published.
In addition to being a photographer, Kourakou works as an art conservator/restorer as well as a mosaics artist.