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YIANNIS THEODOROPOULOS
b. 1962, Athens. Lives in Athens. Landscape in Folegandros, 2018
Landscape in Skyros, 2014
Over the last 20 years I have been photographing landscapes and objects, but also spaces that are usually located in the interior of my house in Mangoufana (Pefki) and sometimes in other places, as, for example, on the island of Skyros – where my summer house is located; I have called this work experiential sculpture. By the term “experiential” I mean that the items I am photographing are not random objects that merely happened to be there before me, but objects that are charged with a physical part of my everyday life, that essentially convey parts of my narrative, or, it might be better to say, our narrative, to indicate that this phrase (my narrative) is not meant in a narcissistic way. This narrative does not constitute a linear record; rather, I would say it comprises a psychogram (a record of a frame of mind), suggesting that what is within and what is without are engaged in an ongoing dialogue.
The most recent pictures focus on a table covered by a white sheet. On the table lie two distinctive stones from my visits to Yemen and Mani, plus a postcard from my best-loved location in Folegandros, which I have kept since 1995 and which co-exists with a piece that has broken off from Saridis’ commode, the bamboo thatching from the house in Skyros, the whitewashed Panagia Libiani church which awakens a vortex of childhood memories.
Yiannis Theodoropoulos
Artist Website: yiannistheodoropoulos.com
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