ΕΡΕΙ[ΠΙΑ (RUINS)
Photo Exhibition by Christos Katsinas
Inspired by the performance "Die Heimat"
Omada33 presented – on assignment – the photo exhibition “Ruins” by Chrisros Katsinas at beton7café, from March 28th 2014 till April 12th 2014. The exhibition was held in the frame of the performance Die Heimat.
The photo exhibition featured abandoned houses, which unveil signs of time deterioration, neglect and silence. Although these images transpire a sense of decay or loss – personal or social – at the same time they disclose memories of colours, scents, sounds and habits, which lived in these abandoned places once upon a time.
As the photographer cites:
“These houses have never stopped fascinating most of us…. While the thought of desertion frightens us, abandoned buildings on the contrary are attractive to most people. A simple `visit' to an abandoned house, a factory or a warehouse reveals instantly the result of years or even decades of natural deterioration. Silence! Walls, rooms, stairs, gates, all these were filled once with children’s voices and sentiments. Now, the scent of mould replaces that of hot delicious food. Demolished places, that were once “the tile” above the heads of a family or the working place of people who were shedding their sweat ... Time, though, doesn’t allow for sentiments…»
The houses I had, they took them away from me/ ………/ I don’t know much about houses/ I know they have their own nature, nothing else/ New at first, like babies / who play in gardens with the tassels of the sun./ They embroider colored shutters and shining doors over the day./ When the architect’s finished, they change, /they frown or smile or even grow stubborn/ with those who stayed behind, with those who went away/with others who’d come back if they could/or others who disappeared, now that the world’s become an endless hotel.
[Giorgos Seferis
The Thrush]
PHOTO EXHIBITION
