Photography exhibition by Anthi Mara and Myrto Katramadou
Curated by: Plato Rivellis
Estudio Gallery – Kifissia
February 10-25, 2017
Anthi Mara
A great challenge for a photographer is to avoid any specific thematic and attempt to transform the fragments of the real world into the structural elements of their own photographed world. In this effort, their ally is the detachment from the crutch of recognizable themes and from the significance these hold for the viewer; however, the opponent is the risk of their photography being limited to its artistic construction and losing the necessary connection with reality. Anthi Mara dares and wins the bet to handle specific and recognizable subjects by removing their significance as elements of reality, to make them recognizable details of a new and different set. Thus, the dreamlike and simultaneously artistic element always remains structurally connected with reality, but it acquires a new and uniquely its own content.*
Plato Rivellis
*Foreword from her first photographic monograph (Fotochoros Publications, 2016)
Myrto Katramadou
I have always admired those who do many things well and do not allow any of them to consume their lives. Myrto Katramadou is a doctor, a mother, designs and makes jewelry, and just a year ago, began methodically engaging with photography, without abandoning her other life activities. As her photography teacher, I can declare that I was impressed by how quickly she realized that photography is primarily about the frame and the ability to transform a real event into a photographic event. Myrto even went a bit further, allowing several of her photographs to become part of a broader theme, thus marking the beginning of a style.
The joint exhibition of her photographs along with those of her good friend and former student of mine, Anthi Mara, helps us perceive kinships, similarities, differences, and peculiarities that make the enjoyment of photography more substantive.
Plato Rivellis
Biographies:
Anthi Mara was born and raised in Athens where she lives and works. She studied French Philology and Translation. She began her involvement with photography in 2008. She has been a member of the Photographic Circle since 2012. She has presented her work in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Myrto Katramadou was born in 1973 in Athens. She studied Medicine in Milan and Thessaloniki. She specialized in Pathobiology and works privately as a Microbiologist in Kifissia. Photography has been a significant part of her life since her university years. She has been a member of the Photographic Circle since 2016. She participated in a group exhibition in Delphi themed "Traces and Ruins."
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