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Venue
Alatza Imaret
Artist
Nikos Markou
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Shipwreck, photography, 2004 |
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I am not interested in landscape painting but on the mutual relationship between the city and the people that live and work in it. However, most images don’t include people and if they do, they appear in a small scale in relation to the surrounding space. Due to the fact that I am not interested in incorporating the image in the identity-portrait of the depicted individual, but rather, in his/her motion in the space, the narration that is eventually created is far from cinematic.
I seek the aesthetics of the city through the quality of life and within the framework of work. Therefore, a part of the image is constituted by areas of mass occupation such as airports, ports and customs. Since the concept of the emotional state of the depicted individuals is not taken into account, my images are composed of the subjective stopovers of my tours in the outskirts of the Greek urban scene.
The photographic perception forms the landscape transforming it from a descriptive element into an episode of human history.
The frame introduces a feeling of calmness, the calmness which accompanies apprehension.
From this point of view, the way I name my pieces is illustrative: whether the titles are geographic descriptions of the location or calendar-style records of the date. The piece illustrates a single indication in which its archival austerity signals the artist’s progress towards the knowledge of the city’s ‘invisible’ characteristics.
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