HARIS EPAMINONDA
Lives and Works in Berlin, Germany. Epaminonda mostly works with found images from decades past, both still and moving, which she cuts, edits, layers, and reframes. There is a peculiar quality to her material—faded travel photographs, pages of old nature magazines, ethnographic artifacts or footage from forgotten television programs—a curiosity in natural and cultural phenomena that the artist excels and transforms in her collages through an act of visual alchemy: “Ancient Egyptian and Cypriot artifacts begin to radiate colored auras, buildings are gripped by architectural and spatial schizophrenia, and polite living rooms are fractured by shards belonging to far-off locales and disparate temporal registers.” from press release dOCUMENTA(13) Exhibitions (selection): Künstlerhaus Zürich (solo); Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo); Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (solo); Tate Modern, London (solo); Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (solo); Venice Biennale (representing Cyprus); dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel. Artist's website |
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