Nymphaea Opening: 25 / 09 / 2020 Duration of exhibition: 25 / 09 - 10 / 10 Gallery hours: Tue, Wed, Fri: 16:00 - 20:00, Sat, 11:00 - 14:00
Themistokleous 42, Exarcheia 5th floor,

#2 The exhibition Nymphaea presents a visual dialogue between Alexandros Garnavos and Danae Panagiotidi. In every photographic series, each photograph serves as a counterpoint for the others and hence various individual narratives are created, allowing the viewer to actively participate in forming personal interpretations. Both artists are examining through their practice, photography as a mechanism of memory preservation and construction and therefore they capture moments of their daily life. All photographs displayed, center around the idea of the seen and the unseen ranging from faceless figures or limbs of their bodies and objects that have been used or left behind. Such representations clearly refer to notions of life’s presence and absence creating a sense of dream, melancholy, mystery, and inwardness.
Text by Ariadne Tzika

Alexandros Garnavos was born in Athens in 1992. He is a graduate of the Department of Fine Arts and Art Science of the University of Ioannina, majoring in painting. In 2016, he studied in the Academy of Fine Arts Brera, in Milan he attended painting lessons with I. Gadaleta and photography lessons with S. Bergantini. He has worked as an assistant stage designer on theater and tv and as assistant costume designer ( with E. Manolopoulou, E. Papageorgakopoulou, A. Mentis, M. Maggira, and T. Lovell ) in productions of National Theater, Athens and Epidaurus festival, Poreia Theater, Herod Atticus Odeon and Onassis Foundation in which he collaborated with the directors T. Tzamargia, K. Arvanitaki, G. Kaklea, D. Karantza, D. Tarloou, M. Ohrn, and F. Euaggelino. As a visual artist, he has also participated in various group shows of young artists in Greece and other countries, such as the 8th Biennale of Young Greek Artists. Danae Panagiotidi was born in Athens in 1992. Since 2010 she has been an active photographer, using analog photography as her primary medium of expression. She has worked in the field of fashion and cinema, as a photojournalist at the Athens International Film Festival and has been the assistant of photographer Chris Doulgeris. Part of her work has been published in various photographic editions and independent magazines. In 2019 she participated in the group exhibition Almere. She holds a diploma in Psychology (BSc) from the University of Athens.