Eleni Koroneou Gallery is pleased to invite you to the launch of Christina Dimitriadis' book "Island Hoping" on Sunday 22 December at 1 p.m.


The title of the photographic series “Island Hoping” – an optimistic wordplay on the notion of island hopping – explores images and myths of the Mediterranean, a geographical entity, but above all an imagined reality, in which the appreciation of beauty and a collective spirit are deeply ingrained. The Mediterranean is sometimes described as a cultural space, but in fact, its historical and political reality has always been more complex.
In these meticulously structured photographs, islands and rock formations emerge from the sea in an indeterminate landscape. Due to their morphology and ruggedness, the rocky shores of the Aegean islands evoke ambiguous emotions that lie between optimism, hope, and uncertainty. Christina Dimitriadis’s aesthetic approach transforms the landscape from hospitable to barren.
The starting point for the series was a black-and-white photograph of Helgoland, an island in the North Sea with a distinctive political and geographical history. It is also the birthplace, on the maternal side, of the Dimitriadis family and the beginning of a continuous biography of migration. Past and future, individual and collective flow together, making Island Hoping a hybrid of North and South.
Christina Dimitriadis notes, ‘Through these small, rocky islands, I sought to focus on a distinctive landscape, which mostly goes unnoticed. These photographs compose a different kind of ‘map’ of Greece, a second reading of the country, questioning commonplace, stereotypical imaging.’

ISLAND HOPING by CHRISTINA DIMITRIADIS

​Texts Denys Zacharopoulos, Övul Durmusoglu, Kimberly Bradley
Editor Delphine Bedel
Graphic Design Studio Lialios Vazoura
96 pages, 19x25 cm, English
Four-color process, clothbound hardback
Edition 09/2019
META/BOOKS
ISBN 978-90-821182-6-1
www.metabooks.nl