Ioanna Sakellaraki is a Greek visual artist and researcher. Her work investigates the relationship between collective cultural memory and fiction. Drawing emphasis on the photographic object, process and encounter, she explores the boundaries of a primitive, yet futuristic vision of places and people.
Anna in magnification of 100 μm
Working with the `archive in the archive` materialising new relationships to memory, identity, family history and representation by making use of my father`s archival photographs of his ex-wife Anna, the woman with the pearl necklace discovered through his records and my own archive of damaged pearls I have been collecting for the last two years from pearl farms in Western Australia.
Here I have used both light microscopy and scan electron microscopy zooming into cracks and fragments of damaged nacre on a sliced freshwater pearl`s surface to capture a variety of assymetrical plateaus composing a meandering new portrait of Anna; a forever paradoxical and unreasolved figure in this work.
I will be speaking more about this project as part of my upcoming conference talk @archivoplatform International Conference on Photography and Visual Culture taking place on the 27th of September at 2.30.PM WEST. Book your ticket for the virtual event via the Link in my Bio
The presentation on my practice- led Doctoral study ``Archiving the Disaster: Preservation, Separation and Encounter`` will touch upon the ways I engage with continental philosophy and literary theory to pursue research across diverse discursive and visual registers. I will specifically analyse the ways in which the work of French literary thinker Maurice Blanchot has allowed for my expanded photographic practice to utilize his concept of the disaster as a critical and conceptual framework for interpreting personal and historical archives, namely my father`s maritime archive found after his death and the archives of Australia`s pearling history.
Looking forward to seeing you there 🦪🦪🦪
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Moira Thanatoloio (destiny of death), The Truth is in the Soil, 2019
Edition of 3+2AP
Archival Pigment Print mounted on Museum Board Framed in 12 mm Oak Wood Box Frame with Museum Glass
Just produced in Berlin and ready to be shipped to its new home in Belgium!
Discover all remaining editions on my site via Link in Bio https://ioannasakellaraki.com/project/fine-art-prints/
Email for inquiries ioanna.sakellaraki@gmail.com
Parts of this edition have been acquired by private collectors in Switzerland, UK, France, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and USA. One of the works has been acquired as part of the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, USA.
Thank you for supporting my practice 🙂
I look forward to hearing from you!
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Being an artist is such a precious but precarious part of one`s identity always dealing with the unknown both conceptually and in terms of real life challenges for financing one`s practice. I am the most fulfilled when someone decides to make my work and story part of their lives. It means the world to me and I am forever grateful for your support 🙏 Here some snapshots from homes around the world with my art in them!
Very few limited editions of fine art prints and framed artworks from The Truth is in the Soil are still available so please write to me directly for inquiries ioanna.sakellaraki@gmail.com
All photographic and mixed media works are Archival Pigment prints in Editions of 3+2AP that can be purchased unframed or framed in 12mm tulip wood box frames with museum glass.
All Archival Embroideries are Unique Editions and only 4 out of the initial 7 hand stitched artworks are still available.
All works are carefully produced and mounted on museum board or archival fabric lined frames and delivered in handmade crates together with a signed Certificate of Authenticity!
Parts of this edition have been acquired by private collectors in Switzerland, UK, France, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and USA. One of the works has been acquired as part of the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, USA.
Thank you for supporting my practice 🙂
I look forward to hearing from you!
❤️❤️❤️
#fineart #artphotography #limitededition #fineartprinting #ioannasakellaraki #uniqueartwork #mourning #womenartists #grief #photography #fineart #framing #conceptual #artsales #artcollector #artworld #thetruthisinthesoil #artcollectors #lifeofanartist #contemporaryart #contemporarywomenartists #artcurator #lacma
‘Tales of Sea, Lust and Death’ is a trilogy developed with and against my late father’s maritime archive found after his death. It is narrated through my intimate journey between my homeland Greece and my current place of residence Australia.
Emerged in the intersection of geographies and material practices, it allows for a reciprocal exchange and anamorphosis of personal histories as unstable grounds being open to interpretive invention.
Part One, `The Seven Circuits of a Pearl` is soon being finalised with the completion of a unique limited edition artist book object to be made available soon.
In the meantime, I have already began working on Part Two, ‘Nine Days on the Lizard Reef’, during which I dismantle a family lie that leads me to the discovery of my half- brother, by my father and his ex-wife, whom I have never met. Diving deep inside the oceans of the forever unknown and continuously reformed in my family history and creative practice, I find myself on the faraway coral islands of the Australian Great Barrier Reef, where I work onsite with my father’s reptile skin collection and stories of deception and camouflage of marine wildlife in this other part of the world.
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