29TH APRIL | Athens Open Art

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INDEX 1. SURIDH DAS-HASSAN 2. ROOT YARDEN 3. ROMANE STAFINIAK (STNK PARIS) 4. BULKY STUFF 5. DOMINIQUE PARIS 6. CARAMELADORA 7. ANGELINA DELGADO LIBRERO 8. HANSLAND 9. NICOLE TOFERER 10. DAVID JR. 11. CATARINA TOKATJIAN 12. MICHÈLE HERNÁNDEZ 13. ALEXANDRA BAKA 14. JENNIFER WESTJOHN 15. REBECCA FENELEY 16. DOMINIKA KUTHEILOVÁ 17. MANDY EUGENIOU 18. NOA FERDER 19. SEAN WANG

SURIDH DAS-HASSAN IG: @shazdirector Suridh Das-Hassan first picked up photography as a youngster in North London and quickly developed a passion for all things film. His work is heavily influenced by his Indonesian roots and his upbringing by a single mother and Swedish-Indian grandparents. His themes focus on cultural and ethnic identity as well as memory and movement, particularly within the urban environment. Suridh has spent the past 10 years living across South-East Asia running his studio and curating exhibitions but over the last few years he has rediscovered his love of creating visual art through photography, mixed media and filmmaking. In 2019 he directed his first short fiction film Sodo Express which has won a number of awards.

Now back in London, his artwork was recently selected by the British Journal of Photography to be featured as part of the Edition 365 New Art show.

ROOT YARDEN IG: @root_yarden Root Yarden was born in 1958. Based in Israel- at the upper Galilee Later became a drama therapist- then came words. Root was publishing 3 poetry books.

From 2020 Root had develop her way as a video artist-. She is using her photography as words in poetry. Root Yarden is influenced by Pina Bausch, Marina Abramovith and above all- Carl Gustav Jung.. When the body meets other environment. When the soul connected to the body- when it is possible to let go to surrender. Then the miracle is happening. The inner space meets any kind of reality or material – A tree, a rock, The earth… the artist is leaving her studio and start going, it looks like an inner reaserch combining body and nature’ myth and archetype. The heeler, the great mother, the goddess ..

It is a journey of finding inner roots and wings.

ROMANE STAFINIAK (STNK PARIS) IG: @stnkparis Romane Stafiniak is a French fashion designer artist and model specialized in natural and vegetal dyeing.

After finishing her fashion studies in Paris, she launched her own ecofriendly fashion label called STNK Paris. Based on upcycling and natural dyeing, the label proposes unique vintage apparel, with a new color and a new textile design, made by hand.

Mostly working with different shades of colors Romane Stafiniak likes to learn new technics by herself and to develop her craft.

The « Ecoprint » collection is the result of one of them, using traces of vegetals and leafs to create a new design. Like a painting, she creates an artwork on the clothing and intend to make them rise as an art piece.

BULKY STUFF IG: @happy_days0.1 Bulky Stuff is an amateur photographer from Athens Greece. Also known as “Happy_Days0.1” or “For The Record 108” he is involved in music making and reporting, painting and a bit of writing. His work is simple, many times abstract, focusing on the process of making, rather than the quality of the technique. Experimentation is one of the main elements that discipline his work, either if that’s a film dipped and soaked in espresso or wine before shooting, or a recorded sample highly distorted and modified.

DOMINIQUE PARIS IG: @d0mparis Dominique Paris is a published Digital Collage Artist and multi-disciplined Graphic Designer, based in Istanbul. Inspired by imperfection, expressionism, and juxtaposition, each of her works represents surrealism, visual poetry, and the intersection between human form and ethereal landscapes. Using curated photographs of the human form, each element is deconstructed and reconstructed to obscure it from its original form, where the boundary between figurative representation and imagination has become blurred. Feelings of melancholy run through her work as we contrast the impermanence of human existence and phantasmagoric elements, revealing a pixilation of reality

CARAMELADORA IG: @carameladoramusic Carameladora is an artist and researcher in Bucharest, Romania, with a degree in Art from the National University of Arts Bucharest and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Bucharest. Her experience in conservation and investigation of works of art has granted her fellowships and awards. Her paintings have been featured in exhibitions throughout Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Greece, and the United Kingdom. Carameladora’s visual art explores acrylic on canvas and digital painting. In recent years, inspired by the meaning of life and death and the beauty in life through passing thoughts, actions, and glimpses of moments in time, she has devoted herself to the creation of paintings and electronic music.

ANGELINA DELGADO LIBRERO IG: @angelinadelgadolibrero Born in 1967 in the mining town of Riotinto (Huelva) in Spain, Angelina Delgado Librero studied at the Universidad de Sevilla, where she received Bachelor’s degrees in Education and in Pedagogy, and a Master’s degree in Psychology. As a visual artist she combines collage and photography with manual printing and poetry to find a way to express experiences that, despite being universal, are difficult to explain.

Founding member of Casa de Palabras Andalucía Association that brings experiences of art and reading to children in disadvantaged environments, and since 2016 she belongs to an artistic collective that produces Fanzine 500mts.

HANSLAND IG: @hanslandpolaroids With HANSLAND, Markus Hans Kleierl (*1972 in Amberg/Opf.) is combining pictures with songs. In 2013, he started taking photographs with a 1969 Polaroid "Land350" camera using black-and-white packfilm Fuji FP-3000b. Meanwhile, a Polaroid "Land210" has been added.The connections with the songs result from mood, title or text content.

On show are fine art prints on "Canson Baryta Photographique" paper, made from scans of the instant photos from original size to DIN A3+.

NICOLE TOFERER IG: @nicoletoferer Nicole Toferer is an Austrian art photographer based in Vienna.

Currently she's working at the studio of VALIE EXPORT. With her photographs, she makes the invisible visible and expresses how she sees the world through her eyes.

With this particular art work about violence against women, she show's clothes that have been worn, places of loneliness and also provokes the viewer by "looking back".

It triggers the viewer's feelings that she felt at the moment, allowing to see through her eyes, the female gaze.

Her work revolves around socially critical issues such as the role of women in art and society, feminism, the portrayal of men in feminist art as well as loneliness and selfreflective works.

Capturing the moment, the emotions, the atmosphere is what makes her art authentic.

DAVID JR. IG: @aureoleproject David Jr. is a Designer and Digital Artist who believes that female bauty is one of the most powerful forces of nature. By connecting the beauty of sensuality with ancient and contemporary symbols of virtues, he creates visual expressions that aims to channel the sensual energy towards inspiration and empowerment both for the photographed models and for the observers. In “Aureole Project” the artist brings back the ancient symbol of the aureole (halo) in a renewed concept, revealing the natural holiness that resides in sensuality, staring beauty through eyes of love and empathy, enabling the observer to let all the sensual energy flow through the soul without any guilt, but instead with profound awe and respect for the source of this energy. While admiring, it is impossible to forget the spark of holiness, the intrinsic divinity carved in each woman´s curves. More than static sculpture, there is a complex living being, with an entire universe of thoughts and feelings orbiting her mind.

CATARINA TOKATJIAN IG: @cat_tokatjian Catarina Tokatjian is an architect, who, motivated by a passion for adventures and discovery, has become a professional photographer of NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY. Photographing nature requires determination, focus and admiration for all BEINGS that inhabit this beautiful planet.

With her true appreciation and respect, she brings her PURPOSE, which is through her art.

Her aim is to positively impact the world and touch the soul of each person, providing FEELINGS of happiness, well being and peace of mind.

She seeks to demonstrate through her eyes, the wonders of Nature, for you to perceive, admire and emerge with the certainty that WE ARE ONE! Reconnect.

MICHÈLE HERNÁNDEZ IG: @Meeshlens Michèle Hernández is a French - Venezuelan artist .

She embraces photography as a transferable truth in which every taken image allow us to see a world full of unaware subtleties . Hernández ́ s work surpasses time and space in an exceptionally minimalist and moderately sensual way .

Growing up, she moved to Barcelona, Spain where she completed her high school studies and Tennis specialization Back in Caracas, she studied documental photography at ROBERTO MATA ́ s School and artistic photography at CIEF .

“I only find myself when surrounded by nature . ” Hernández have just won the Passepartout Photo Prize in its 3 rd and 4 th edition (Rome, Italy ) and is currently working on her permanent portfolio in collaboration with PHOTO VOGUE, from PHOTO VOGUE ITALIA

ALEXANDRA BAKA IG: @alexandrabaka Alexandra Baka is a visual artist from Athens, Greece.

From early on she started exploring the world of arts through her music studies, in which she holds a Diploma in Polyphonic Composition. Later on she did a foundation degree in Digital Film making, followed by a BA in Arts and Design (High Pass). Currently she’s expanding her academic career with an Intergrated Master in Audio Visuals arts.

She mainly uses video as a medium to express her personal thoughts.

JENNIFER WESTJOHN IG: @jenniferwestjohnphotos Born in 1981, Jennifer Westjohn is a French artist and Naturopath who uses the media of photography to bring forth spiritual questions and dive into the sublime depth offered by our natural world in its most mystic dimension.

Self-taught, with a passion for the Elsewhere in nature as well as in people. She travels and collects incredible landscapes crystallized in the fleetingness of the moment. Inspired by her encounter with Ladyboys in Thailand, she made a series of portraits of these women wrapped in men's bodies who try to live in harmony with their souls.

Her work aims at revealing the strong vibrations of the universe and raise various subjects as shamanism, instinct and the spirit dwelling in everything.

From inner to outer beauty her photographies try to explore and reach the dimensions of a higher realm of our soul.

Her work was subject to several exhibitions and conferences in France and abroad and received the high-patronage of the UNESCO, the French Ministry of Ecology and the City of Paris.

REBECCA FENELEY IG: @rebeccafeneley Rebecca Feneley is a UK based Artist & Illustrator using illustration to explore the connection between female energy and nature.

Working both digitally and traditionally across a variety of disciplines including live art, illustration and murals, Rebecca specialises in combining luxurious decorative art with conceptual storytelling.

The ‘Natural Alchemy’ series illustrates the female form as a reflection of nature itself; both vulnerable and strong, delicate and bold.

The bee serves as a symbol representing natural alchemy and the circularity found within nature, whilst the references to pools and lakes echoes our historic yearning for connection through water, windows and mirrors.

DOMINIKA KUTHEILOVÁ IG: @dominikakutheil Dominika Kutheilová was born on 2nd May 2000 in Prague, Czech Republic. From 2021, she is a student of Photography at Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem.

In her work, she focuses primarily on mental and health problems and the path to selfacceptance. She makes extensive use of the technique of scanography, which gives her the opportunity to emphasize her emotions as accurately as possible. In addition, she specializes in storytelling, fashion and traditional graphic techniques.

MANDY EUGENIOU www.theblacktower.co.uk The Black Tower is an award-winning, experimental film using crowd-sourced, aftermath images of the burnt shell of Grenfell Tower, London. Homage to John Smith’s 1987 masterpiece whose narrator is preoccupied with a black tower that seems to follow them around. Here we join the conversation between myth & reality and the role of viewerwitness. Given how voyeurism underlies an engagement with spectacular violence, the film explores “Art After Grenfell” by putting the traumatic image under scrutiny. Film is accompanied by a word piece.

Mandy Eugeniou’s work stems from an interest in how consciousness relates to boundaries in visual culture. Recent works have confronted image proliferation, (counter)memory and monumentality through notions of representation between space, time and body.

NOA FERDER IG: @_ferder SHAPELESS SHAPE by Noa Ferder Videography by Noa Astanjelove Sound design by Gal Tevet Noa Ferder is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Glasgow, Scotland.

Ferder has been working in Israel's leading performance art centers and theatres in various positions, while creating visual content such as fine-art photography and video art. Her work experiments with identities, shapes, and definitions, attempting to challenge her own perceptions and beliefs. Nowadays, she's a contemporary performance practice student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

SEAN WANG https://seanwang.format.com/ Sean Wang, a Taipei native, holds both a BA and MA in History from the National Taiwan University. He later received his MFA education in photography from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sean spends his time traveling between Bitan and Taipei and actively engages with photography and criticism. Sandor Marai is his favorite writer.

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