18th September - 18th December, Thessaloniki

 

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Exhibition

Facing Mirrors

Τhe Museum of Photography Thessaloniki as part of the program Thessaloniki: Crossroads initiated by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism (with the financial support of OPAP) organizes the exhibition Facing Mirrors with works by Yasser Alwan (Iraq-USA, series Mirror Image), Gilbert Hage (Lebanon, series Ici et Maintenant and Anonymes / courtesy: Galerie Tanit, Munich / Espace Kettaneh-Kunigk, Beirut), Youssef Nabil (Egypt, series You never left / courtesy: Galerie Nathalie Obadia), Hrair Sarkissian (Syria, series Zebiba / courtesy: Kalfayan Galleries, Athens-Thessaloniki) and Raed Yassin (Lebanon, series Who Killed the King of Disco).

Τhe exhibition attempts to explore the different approaches of depicting a face in a portrait. The 130 works of the exhibition either by presenting portraits which are staged or not,  aim at demonstrating to the viewer that a portrait is not just a random snapshot but the depiction of a multilayered situation. These layers, social, cultural or symbolic, can develop in different manners –by inviting each viewer to face a mirror and see the face photographed, his own self, the view of the West towards the Middle East and vice versa.

The exhibition also includes two videos: You never left - Youssef Nabil (duration: 8’) and Who Killed the King of Disco - Raed Yassin (duration: 5’).

Planning and exhibition organization: Vangelis Ioakimidis, Alexandra Athanasiadou