Video: Embroidered photos of Maria Ikonomopulo
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Maria Ikonomopoulou is an unusual artist. She is one of those dreamers who try to convey through her art something extraordinary, simple, but at the same time complex, strong, but free, familiar, but also unknown. One of her most famous works is the series “Spaces between us”, which is a combination of embroidery and photography.
Work on "Spaces between us" began in 2004 and continues to this day. This series represents old black-and-white photographs of ordinary people, their own space between which is embroidered with red threads. The author is sure that nowadays people have moved away from each other, gained too much freedom and surrounded themselves with invisible borders. In such conditions, it is simply necessary to return the former closeness. “The search for the possibility of bringing people closer together without violating existing social rules and laws is currently the most important issue for me. I know for sure that the moments of true connection between people carry the deepest happiness,” says Maria. And her art is one of the attempts to convey the importance of the topic of intimacy to the viewer, the desire to ask people the most important questions and make them think about them.
The photographs used by Maria Ikonomopulo as the basis for her works are taken from her personal archive, which the author has collected over the years. These are mainly images of athletes, politicians, film actors and ordinary people cut from newspapers. Probably, the artist chose black and white photographs for greater clarity and increased contrast between the image and the embroidery with red threads. Or maybe there is a deeper meaning here: black and white photos as a symbol of alienation and lack of intimacy in the modern world. But regarding the choice of the color of embroidery, Maria gives an unequivocal answer, saying that she preferred red, because she considers it a symbol of importance, strength, warmth, passion and life.
Maria Ikonomopulo was born in 1961 in the Greek city of Kalamata, but since 1985 she lives and works in Rotterdam (Netherlands). While individual exhibitions of Maria's works have so far been held only in her native Greece and the Netherlands, as part of group exhibitions, the author's works have already traveled all over the world, having visited, among other countries, Mexico, Belgium, Spain, Turkey.
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