One ride to mass media and you can see a grainy abstract advertisement of a car, a bank, a whiskey, or a lipstick made with super 8 film and right below five bombed children with a crisp and sharp image.
Photography, cinema and DIY art movements that once created aesthetics from a political and philosophical point of view and didn’t want any connection with mass media and the established norm, are now part of the established and mainstream media created by multi-million corporations and lesser companies manipulating and exploiting its original anti-establishment message and form.
The exhibition “37° 59′ 1.7160” N / 23° 43′ 39.1404” E. at state’s embrace” consists of polaroids, super 8 stills, 35mm photos and a short essay film.
The photography section explores mainly the city of Athens, the gloomy buildings, the daily lives of its people, details from the streets, the grim infrastructure, cancer towers, cancer roads, city lights, ads, flowers, trees, cats, some portraits of loved ones.
Some photographs are taken outside Athens, in rural Greece.
The short essay film is a visual and sound diary of a woman who just moved to Athens, Greece from another country. The film follows her audio tape recording on her 30th day in the city.
The film is shot with super 8 black and white film and some additional footage with a digital camera.
/ yorgos apostolopoulos /
