SIILK GALLERY v2.0 soft opening will happen on Saturday April 11th form 6pm with some of our favorite greek photographers!
Works on show by Kostis Fokas, George Kanis, Zena Mag, Apostolis Zerdevas, Alexandra Mavrofridi & Maris Petropolou.
Complimentary drinks and music.
Don't miss out! Look forward to seeing you all there!
• • • Kostis Fokas
Born in Athens, Greece, is a conceptual photographer whose artistic practice revolves around the exploration of the complexities of the human body.
Fokas’s works have been exhibited in the USA and Europe including, The Louvre Museum, Colette in Paris, Art Basel Miami, the Benaki Museum in Athens and the Museum of Modern Art in Thessaloniki and Crete among others.
Fokas has collaborated with and published his work in Zeit Magazine, Les Inrockuptibles,L’obs , i-D, Dazed and Confused, The advocate, Gay times, Gayletter magazine and many more international publications, websites and art books.
His work looks at and investigates the complexities of gender, sexuality, and identity through pictorial representations of the human body. In an attempt to capture the social panorama of contemporary life, the artist offers a discreet look at the body as a site of desire, fantasy, submission, and oppression.
• • • Zena Mag
• • • George Kanis
George Kanis is a well traveled, life experienced, Athens based photographer and long time friend of Siilk Gallery. We’ve known of George for a long time and had him exhinit with us when we launched the space so were happy to invite him back again in our new gallery.
• • • Apostolis Zerdevas
• • • Alexandra Mavrofridi
Alexandra Mavrofridi, Chalkida, is an artist whose main purpose is to create myths and symbols with the aim of producing active art that brings different worlds into contact with one another. Her aesthetic is based on a tragicomical reality, that is not visible to the human eye.
Guided by intuition, the biggest challenge is an effort to produce a protean and escalated body of work that portrays a veritable universe, which lies around the subconscious.
While still pursuing photography and video art, the desire lays on giving more emphasis to drawing, painting, handicraft, design, music, writing, erasing the boundaries in the way we use these media, focusing entirely on the direction to set the underlying theme.
This world is defined by a list of opposites, it is simultaneously tragic and comic, divine and morbid, innocent and momentous. It is populated by creatures wearing masks and costumes, hybrids of humans, antipodes, industrial machines and abstract shadows.
• • • Maris Petropolou
Maris Petropoulou was born in Giannitsa, northern Greece, in 1998. Between 2016 and 2017 she lived in Thessaloniki. She currently resides and works in Athens. She has studied makeup and has worked as a model. She also has a dog, Cassiopeia.
Although she has always been interested in photography, she actively started pursuing it roughly a year ago. Her first serious foray into the world of photography is inextricably linked to the acquisition of her first analog camera (an canon prima zoom ) in June 2019, which marks the beginning of her growing love for analog photography. Her experiments with analog quickly unfolded from just casually capturing moments of friends and family to the execution of more developed concepts and well-thought-out projects.
Her newfound whirlwind relationship with the photographic medium urged her to apply for a scholarship with “Orama Photography Studies” School, which she received for the academic year 2019-2020, and she is currently attending the courses of the first cycle photography studies at the School.
Her work reveals an interest in juxtaposition. She frequently aims to trace flamboyance or detect discreet touches of luxury and finesse in everyday settings and trivial environments. Contrasting elements are present in most of her pictures.
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