the tough and the cute dancer

Solo Exhibition, July 2017 DepotArt Gallery Athens

Curated by: Elena Mavromichali

In 1998, as a student at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, I started working on a series of chronophotographies of dancers from the Metsis Studio ballet school, where I used to spend my afternoons as a hobbyist dancer. I set up a darkroom in my home kitchen and started reworking this material for a couple of years. I kept it in a messy archive that I came to redefine here and there during the years in my free time. In 2013 I chose a selection of this portfolio and re-worked it in a heliogravure technique. In 2015 I selected ten images from the whole work and reworked them digitally. It is interesting how my hesitation to consider this work as finished the last decade, made me follow different techniques from analogue to digital and thus to have a record of ‘a threshold’ to a new age, since all these processes are now considers as old-fashioned: it is really hard to access the material and print it, as it requires vintage equipment and out-of-stock supplies.