You are warmly invited to the book launch of Topheth by Yiannis Theodoropoulos edited by Christopher Marinos and published by Cube Art Editions and Big black mountain the darkness never ever comes

Thursday, February 7, 19:00 - 23:00 at Elika Gallery, 27 Omirou str., 106 72 Athens

Text: Christopher Marinos and Yiannis Theodoropoulos
Design: Studio Lialios Vazoura
Language: English and Greek
Pages: 116
Format: 210x275mm
Photographs: 57
Binding: Hardback bound by hand with suede leather look paper
Edition: 600 copies
ISBN: 978-618-5204-03-7
ISBN: 978-618-83082-3-7

“Topheth”, Yiannis Theodoropoulos’s first book, is about the loneliness of objects, the memory of mosaic floors, the allure of bed sheets and of creases. It is also about the loss of love, the notion of sacrifice and (the process of) victimization, the search for a coherent subjectivity and the impossibility of this endeavour. The principal theme of Theodoropoulos’s images is the “end of tradition”, as the artist himself notes; not just the tradition of photography obviously, but the end of a sense of commitment―personal, social, as well as artistic. From this perspective, Topheth marks the end of submission to perpetuating complexes that cause a slew of guilt and blame. Yiannis Theodoropoulos’s work encompasses Hölderlin’s insight in the poem Patmos (“But where there is danger, A rescuing element grows as well”) and Kafka’s response, so to speak, from The Blue Octavo Notebooks (“Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places”). The photographs included in Topheth are hiding places both for the artist himself and for the spectator who is ready to welcome them and grasp their peculiarity.

Normal price €40.00
Launch price €35.00
(if bought on the day)