Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki
2010 Photobiennale TOPOS
Friday, 18 June 2010
déjà vu
«Déjà vu», is a series of photos of landscapes for which I have a feeling of carrying in my fantasy, places that I have already visited mentally some long time ago, before running into them physically. In a sort of unspecified way they have already been held in store in my memory like a scene of a dream, pending between existence and non existence. Thus, by no means does it surprise me when I come across them in real life. Quite simply, I am glad to verify their existence; their transition from an imaginary world to physical reality: a riddle being played between memory and conception, a ‘magma’ of actual remembrance and mental invention.
I perceive the physical «déjà vu» landscapes through all my senses; some times through a panoramic search in ‘my horizon’ and on other occasions by an intense focus on unimportant details. Photographing them is an automatic reaction to all these intimately familiar places, already kept inert in my mind awaiting to be reactivated until I next meet them.
demetris koilalous
dkoilalous
PhotoBiennale / April 2010-May 2011
PhotoBiennale / 21st International Photography Meeting
PhotoBiennale / 21st International Photography Meeting is organized by the Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, the only state-run museum dedicated exclusively to photography in Greece.
Τhe central topic of PhotoBiennale 2010 is “Place” (Topos). This is the second part of a thematic trilogy which began in 2008 with “Time” (Chronos) and will continue in 2012 with “Discourse” (Logos).
PhotoBiennale 2010 is devided in 3 parts (1st part: April-May, 2nd part: June-September, 3rd part: October-December/Μay 2011).
The international meeting includes exhibitions presented in museums, galleries and other exhibitions spaces all over the city of Thessaloniki, as well as in other Greek cities, in collaboration with public and private organizations.
Apart from the Main Program, the event encompasses parallel events and activities, like the Portfolio Reviews and the international photography Award Cedefop/Photomuseum which is related to the topic of work.
The PhotoBiennale is firmly situated amongst other European festivals of photography, namely Fotografia in Rome, International Photo biennale in Moscow and PhotoEspana in Madrid. The Festival is also part of “Festival of Light”, (www.festivaloflight.net) an international collaboration of photography festivals around the world.