Artist Statement
As an artist I use the medium of photography and the primary goal of my work but also my role as an artist is to provoke emotions and engage my audience to a self-exploring journey commemorating the past. My inspiration derives from the emotional aspect of traumatic experiences and the effects these have on both the human body and society. A traumatic experience is not only confined to the person who has experienced it but it is also a projection of a problematic society. Whether the main topic is religion, racism, or a personal story all of these expose a society with open wounds.
Even though I primarily use photography to project my ideas, I sometimes keep my camera on the side and resort to found footage imagery or collage to articulate my message. Different materials are used in the process, as each one adds a new meaning. I manipulate the images both digitally and with my own hands because it is there where I find the freedom to experiment more and express myself unconditionally.
Anna Charalampidi.
A dialogue with the horizon (2023-2026)
Untitled.
Mixed media collage
Horizon comes from the Greek word "ορίζω" which means to define and therefore to become.
Memory does the same. It defines not only our past but also our present and future.
It defines our identity.
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Untitled
Mixed media collage
42x29,05cm
2026
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Untitled
Mixed media collage
42x29,05cm
2026
Shifting.
Framed collage work with found footage material.
2023
16x17cm
Edition 1/1
My memories begun in another country, with a different culture and a different climate. Making a new life in a different country feels like you need to create a new horizon from the very scratch.
Sometimes you're failing and sometimes you're feelling that you have shifted the horizon.
Untitled.
Framed collage work with found footage material.
31x18,5cm.
Edition 1/1.
Individual artworks
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Collage with found footage material
(2020)
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Collage with found footage material
(2021)
The Cut (2017-2018)
The found photos used in this project are sourced from newspapers and articles published during the 70s. They are on their own a strong documentation of their time. By using these photos, I am dealing with specific and real facts that occurred in the past. After the folding process, this realism/reality becomes totally fictional. By hiding and folding something else appears.
What do you see?
The crease signifies how close is reality with fiction and how thin the line can be between the bright and the dark side of ourselves.
Still Lives (2018-2019)
Objects can be much more than the physical space they occupy.
They can provide a timeless link to the past through the sensory
exploration of them and retrieve memories treasured in our
subconscious.
Photography can help to capture and preserve these links in an
eternal form.
Recently, academics are showing a growing interest in the emotional relationship of people to things, the way objects symbolize and record interactions and relationships and the way they preserve our memories – past and present.
These contribute in shaping our personalities, influencing our behavior and the way we react to various stimuli. As these change and evolve, so are we.
I use photography to transpose objects from their physical space to my images in an effort to create a record of emotions, relationships and recollections.
I am fascinated by memory and its mechanics and in my project I narrate the stories of the people I have met and interviewed and my personal experiences.
Documentation photos. Graduation festival, Royal Academy of Arts of The Hague, July 2019.
The project Still Lives consists of a publication and an audio file with the stories of the people involved. For privacy reasons the audio isn't online.
