01 Dec 12/2023 – Ioanna Spetzou. Honorable Mention for Absentin’s work at the 9th World Biennale of Student Photography 2023
Graduate student Ioanna Spentzou of the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts received an honorable mention for her work Absentin at the 9th World Biennial of Student Photography 2023 which will be inaugurated on Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at the Gallery of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad of Serbia.
A record number of applications for the Biennale 2023 competition (nearly 500) from 44 countries on five continents resulted in a major exhibition that will feature over 230 works by 37 creators.
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Project title : Absentin, 2022, Ioanna Spetzou
Description: The photographic series “Absentin” is proof that I have been a wanderer. It’s a calendar made up of four self-contained tracks/subsections that don’t conform to the “beginning-middle-end” tripartite. The resulting narrative relates less to place or time, but rather to a state of mind. Photography becomes a catalytic medium that allows me to come to terms with my constant desire for literal and inner wandering. The trees are bare, the landscape misty, and a pile of dry leaves bisects the path. It’s winter. Only a moment of sunlight is enough to reveal to me that I am really there, and defeated by space-time, I am in a primordial dialogue with the landscape. photographing not only my shadow but also the imaginary reflections of myself. The pictured figures turn into images in my mental mirror.
The photographic series was carried out by the student of the department, in the context of the Curating and Publishing Subjects course under the guidance and supervision of the professors Ms Natassa Markidou and Ms Io Paschou.
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