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Evgenia Vasiloude, Hymn to Demeter, 2003-2005. Installation with silkscreenprints on canvas and PVC,
Plexiglas cube, video.
Looking at Vasiloude’s work one realizes
that a renewal lies at the heart of her
practice as an artist. Not only because she
insists on preserving the craftsmanship of
the old engravers, using the traditional skills
along with more contemporary techniques
of artistic production, but also because of
her obsessive return to myth and classic
archetypes of feminity. The myth is no
longer the object of an artistic transfer, but
becomes a vehicle through which the transference
itself is thematised. Hymn to Demeter,
then, functions as a dramatization, a
ritual of passage in which spectators are
invited to participate. (Maria Margaroni)
yannos yapanis
Born in 1972. After studies in Cyprus and
the USA, he enrolled at the Instituto
delle Scienze Cinematografiche ed Audiovisive
(Florence), from which he graduated
as director of photography, after having
specialised in Photographic Portrait and
Camera Obscura. He is a co-founder of
ZooTroupe Productions (Italy). He has
worked as Director of Photography on several
short films and documentaries. He has
participated in photographic exhibitions
in and out of Cyprus. His first short film,
Mavroscoufitsa (Little Black Riding Hood),
(2002), has been screened in several
international film festivals, including, Cannes
(Official Selection); Drama [Greece] (Best
New Director); Montreal; Alpe Adria, Trieste
(Special Mention); and at the Cypriot
Short Film Festival (Third Prize).