Goddesses and Gods
a photography exhibition
Sat. April 6 – Fri. April 26, 2013
Opening Coctail: Sat., April 6, 18:00-20:00 pm
press release
The ” Goddesses and Gods
” wants to tell about the male and female archetypes of mythology that
have always been present over time in such a way as to be contemporary.
Modern men and women who play women and men of the past;
beings, icons, symbol of strength and fragility. The pictures recount a
path to representing divinity .
The god and goddess, in the photographs, are
not represented when expressing their splendor, but in their weakness, in their humanity.
For example, Apollo
is represented in the moment of betrayal by his wife Coronnis, while he is full
of anger and jealousy, The Centaur as a modern soldier wearing a suit and a tie
as the norms impose. Venus looks beautiful, but suffering for the experienced
loves, goddess Juno appears in her jealousy, and the Sybil of Cuma is depicted
when the nature covers her because of
her forgetfulness. The goddess had asked Zeus for eternal life but not for
eternal beauty , so she was destined to disappear.
The images follow
each other in a general framework of human feelings that in mythology also
belonged to gods, in fact they were
expressed in a stronger way often becoming the cause of disasters and revenge.
Perfection is not conceived as purity, but as the fullness of human feelings
that exist and are not judged by the moral discipline but rather considered as
the quality which identifies the
god, his character and his personality
For example
Dionysius, who is carried away by love
and loves , creates wine as an instrument of power which produces
intoxication but also loss of consciousness.
The most powerful
was the goddess Ananke, the goddess of Necessity, from whom even Zeus could not
escape. Eternal weakness puts human beings in a timeless place where there is
no “divine perfection,” but only human perfection that alternates between
beauty and horror. There is no concept of good or evil, there is the concept of
strength and loss of self, power and obedience.The world today is reflected in
mythology, the divine is weak as the man
is. Jupiter swallows the world into his womb, but he is captured by a gold
network made by 100 knots, betrayed by
the other gods that want to dethrone
him, finally he will be able to save
himself. The nymph Daphne prefers to turn into a tree to escape rape by Apollo,
Diana is surprised in the forest, and Pandora expresses her curiosity that will
bring pain to the world. The” Graces”
bewitch us, the goddess
Hecate appears in the forks, while being faced with a choice between
darkness and light. Often photographed subjects are the protagonists of
particular realities as in the case of the ” Graces”: they are Ethiopian women
that work in a circus company in Addis
Ababa, or as “the Centaur”, a man who is a web programmer for various companies
in Milan. Images through timeless icons, which lose their roots in history,
religion, culture, investigating the various aspects and the elusive complexity
of the inner world of the human being Subjects which, in a more or less clear
way, cross the lives of all people, without any distinction, as apparently it
may seem, between women and men. Divinities are a”penetrometric” journey,
where the depth of the soul is sounded
out. A synthetic suggestion of a complex universal immense idea: soul. It is
never surreal or invisible, but simply intimate alcove where inner deep weird poetic and mystical thoughts whirl.
Galeri ARTist Çukurcuma
Ağa Külhanı Sokak, No: 10/A Çukurcuma / İstanbul
Tel.: +90 212 251 91 63