Part I: For two years I photographed again and again in an abandoned building- "the fibers institute".

It contains silence. A different kind of silence, freezing and inspiring. Even though I've been there dozens of times I still discover it every time. I change, the place changes (natural changes caused by the weather, the disintegration of the material and other changes indicating the recent presence of other people who left their mark there).

In my work I capture stylish freezings of situations indecisively, realistic or imaginary, and not a vivid everyday environment. In each frame I create a poetic, symbolic and dramatic reality, moving on the thin line between life and death, reality and fantasy, alienation and belonging, sanity and obsession, fear, pain and loneliness; while stretching the physical and emotional borders, a process that eventually leads to catharsis.

 

I try to confess emotions that I can't express in words, to examine and dig as deep as possible into my spirit and find feelings and thoughts, hidden worlds, both aware and non, personal and collective.

The photographed scenes describe a static activity in a freezing and hypnotizing way that blurs out the realistic connection and gives a mysterious and poetic dimension, made of physical components. Thanks to the setting and placing it is entwined with a hallucinate atmosphere, whose meaning is hidden deep in the profundity of the emotion and the sub conscience, both personal and collective.

 

6 silver prints 80x100cm and a journal (2002-2004)

 

Part II: I return to the place where I photographed dozens of times. After a long and slow consolidation I continue this journey into myself; into a spiritual and an emotional world, collective and personal.

I choose the same realistic imaginary spaces; an environment deprived of life and on surface occurrences; an environment which leads me to a new world.

I enter into myself, to the same unclear emotions; emotions that can't be expressed in words. I go back to the same place and continue my journey and increasing the experience with a video camera. Each scene lasts a few minutes and is a new path into myself, an uncontrolled drifting into unknown realms. Each scene I a struggle with myself, with the insane environment; a game of endurance between me and myself and between the viewer and I; who will be the first to crack?!

 

2 DVD looped screenings (2004-2006)