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‘Changeling'.(wisselkind)
What if you were a Changeling? What if your perception of the past is completely different from the stories you were told by your family? How can it be that people who live together for decennia have completely different memories from one and the same moment? My sense of being a Changeling is something that many people experience. Since I found out that memories are playing tricks on us, I decided to create a fictional life, to make my own memories. In my project ‘Changeling’ I capture these memories by playing with the concepts of time, space and scale within an imaginary life. The title ‘Changeling’ orientates the lecture of the images, which convey a sense of nostalgia and sadness, as well as disorientation.
Photos influence and distort actual recollections of the past. There is always an element of wishful thinking in the choice of the photos that are made and kept; a way to construct your life story and present yourself in a certain light.
My ‘Changeling’ series is about selective memory, it’s a story with holes. Zooming in and out of a family scene, while giving suggestion a bigger role.
The photographic concepts used in this series have been realized through analogue photography, polaroids and the use of different handcrafted blurring- and extricating techniques.
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ARTIST BOOK
My neighbour at Samos island is Manolis. One day he told me this story at eight o'clock in the morning, while drinking a glass of whiskey together: ''You know, I look a lot like Kirk Douglas'', he confided in me, looking very seriously. I started to search for the Tinsel Town-feeling in his little Greek village...
NEOCHORI SPITI
Neochori Spiti was made in a small Greek mountainvillage. Due to the lack of possibilities for making a living or finding a job the inhabitants left for the main land.
The house seems to wait for its owners to return, while the available light caresses the traces people left behind.
21 NYX BLVD
Selfpublished handmade artist photobook.
21 + 10AP
To be released in 2023:
various special editions.
Diary
Polaroids made by me.
I am on the way and make notes, I recognize moments in time.
NISSIOTIKA
I've been travelling the islands of Greece since a quarter of a century and I keep on dancing...
. The Aegean light makes the architecture and the landscape a constant wonder.
BOOKLETS AND DUMMIES
Often series start with a booklet dummy, I still keep on making them as a first sketch of things to come...
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ECHO'S OF LEROS
This ongoing series investigates the abandoned pavilions and villas of the former insane asylum on the island of Leros, Greece. Built by the Italians in war times, it beholds layers of history, traumas and forgotten stories. This series searches for the echo's of those who were unheard.
A visionary investigation for the physical remains of institutional history and the way architecture beholds the stories.
KALÓ RÍSIKO
Polaroid photo transfer on raw linen with handmade embroidery.
Places that feel like home are photographed with my polaroid camera. Afterwards I transfer them onto raw linen and embroider my fantasy roots onto them, 'kaló rísiko' is a wish you give when someone finds a new home. Literally it means : may your roots grow well here.
