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HARRIS TSIRINIDIS
EXHIBITIONS
The exhibition is about memory, or rather its interpretation. Selective memory. There are things we keep in our memory forever, and others we forget. No one knows exactly why (not even Sigmund Freud knew). The inevitable subjectivity that takes part in every story telling or writing. We keep a – personal or collective – memory and make a story, our own story, out of it, and just as subjectively historians write “the History” – including the history of art. It is also a way, to ask ourselves if memory does always have to be so “mandatory”, so present and decisive.
Can elements be detached from their history – moments of life – in order to experience things just for what they are, in the present?
What is the face? Which is its difference from the head? What is symbolically, philosophically, socially and politically the face? How can it be expressed when it cannot be shown? Can we recreate a new face for our face? Who can actually judge the face since it tends to be something like our soul? Portraits, negotiated with the rules of prison. Portraits without faces. Portraits partially or entirely directed by the students in prison. Texts of their own, of free writing (that were never corected or censored). Thoughts and experiences of an everyday life confined in prison. Anger, feelings, memories, dreams. Despair and hope, expectation, honesty, humor and thoughts. Thoughts, some of which were registered on paper and other by the camera in six mornings in the School of Second Chance in the Prison of Diavata...
Concept / Workshop coordination:
Harris Tsirinidis, Sofia Eliza Bouratsis
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