Those Girls We Followed Home 16 - 26.01.08 - cheapart
Fanis Logothetis, Photography Installation
Without using any pretentious techniques he transforms mainly ordinary women in front of his lens, assisted solely by a mask. The mask as a powerful symbol facilitates the process of portrayal in many aspects and as a result, established ideas and taboos are discarded. The spectator’s gaze is attracted by the objective goal, i.e. the transition from the realistic representation to the artist’s own world, who has been influenced by commedia dell'arte and expressionism, as well as by great classic photographers. The pictures, which are printed with a direct print method on inox aluminum sheets, reflect the gaze and style of the artist, who seems to be nonchalant towards an utterly photorealistic depiction of typical materials, such as paper or other photosensitive materials. Thus, the artist chooses to focus on the uniqueness of aluminum as a raw material, which is present in our everyday life in all its practical or nonpractical forms. With the inconspicuous use of new technologies, our black-and-white journey becomes colorful; light, shapes and the plasticity of the female body’s movements serve as its
Do those girls captured by Logothetis’s lens divulge to us a sliver of their truth? Oscar Wilde had once said: “Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth”; could this be true?