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Roland Barthes in one of the most vulnerable moments in his authoritative book on Photography (Camera Lucida) describes in a so "unlike-him" touching way, the "old photos in the trunk" nostalgic, melancholic trance.
"There I was, alone in the apartment where she had died, looking at these pictures of my mother, one by one under the lamp, gradually moving back in time with her, looking for the truth of the face I had loved. And I found it." Gina Maragoudaki is creating the same temporal paradox but only today, now. Her trenchant portraits are touched with pathos. It may seem at first reading a theatricalization of the real. But Gina knows (feels) that something like that would be redundant. And she is delivering something that in itself is the ultimate sacrifice of the artist. Her honest, uncrafted vision of the "memento mori". ‘in Utero’ is:
· a Latin term literally meaning ‘in the womb’. In biology, the phrase describes the state of an embryo or fetus. In legal contexts, the phrase is used to refer to unborn children. · the effort to imprint the status in which the born living being, partially pauses its biological activities for milliseconds, unconsciously or otherwise. While there, the ‘return in the womb’ is unavoidable. · part of a wider on-going project. by Andreas Neophytou |
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What is?The Bulb Collective consists of photographers active in urban (and rural) photography with an expressive shift to include highly aesthetic and poetic images in their assignments. By author
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UpcomingStay tuned to learn in time about the events organised by our team.
JUN 2017: "Home" Project APR 2017: Paphos exhibition DEC 2016: Annual contest NOV 2016: 2nd book launch JUL 2016: Athens exhibition JUL 2016: BULB in Kulturama JUN 2016: Katerini exhibition JUN 2016: Thess. exhibition FEB 2016: Bucharest exhibit JAN 2016: 1st Photo CONTEST AUG 2015: BULB at VSLO2015 JUL 2015: CUCAL Exhibition JUN 2015: BULB 1st Book FEB 2015: Rural Project JAN 2015: BULB Open DAY |
