Stella Baraklianou
My work engages with the limits of photographic representation and its potentialities. For me, this can mean creating impermanent installations either in the studio or in a given place (in the current work, the Mediterranean landscape). These itineraries record my physical movement and intervention into the place or onto objects. It is a memory work, which involves the hands and the body, as well as the physical play between movement and stillness. Most of the times, this work is set-up deliberately for the camera: after the making of the image, the impermanent record disappears.
My thesis has been a constant exploration
on the theme of memory, photography and landscape. In my thesis,
I try to bring together aspects of the physical element of re-creating
memories. I have structured my thesis as a metaphorical walk into
landscape; elements of personal memories are combined with the physical
act of traversing the native landscape of Greece. This walk is also
placed into a wider theoretical framework of the creative force at
work: theories from philosophy, such as Agamben’s notion of
Pasearse, Derrida’s third testimony or witness, Michel Serres
fragmented yet unique Method, to name the most dominant, have all
helped to create the background. Finally, my thesis aims to use a
methodology of creative writing, situated within a contemporary arts
discussion, emphasizing photography as a contemporary art practice.
Academic qualifications
2003 - Phd Candidate by practice, Visual Arts, Goldsmiths College, London2002 - MA in Photographic Studies, University of Westminster, London
1999 - BA in International Politics, Panteion University, Athens, Greece
1997-2001 - Foundation courses in photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
Teaching
2006: Visiting guest lecturer MA Urban Studies Photography, Goldsmiths. MA Photography Thames Valley University September2005-currently: lecturer BA Hons Photography, Havering College, Essex
Presentations and exhibitions
2000 October:
The cherry orchard, solo show, Café Gallery Nikis 35,
Thessaloniki, Greece
2004: “XS” at
FA Projects, Contemporary Art, London
2004: “Cocktail
III” Group show of photographic work, Deluxe Gallery, Hoxton
Square London
2003: “Encounters” group
photography exhibition, Century Gallery, London
2003: “Fragile
distance” Group international photography exhibition, Academy
of Arts, Tallin, Estonia
2003: “Eyejam” show at
Ogilvy and Mathers, London
2002: “Drive” Group
show, Gallery and shop 7, Brick Lane, London
2007 Inventing
Methodologies 2, Goldsmiths. “Threads and other stories”
2007 Guest lecturer Warwick, Centre for the
study of women and gender . “Mothers-daughters-mothers”
2006 Image and imagination 2, Goldsmiths,
Graduate Department, Goldsmiths. “Moving
images”
2005 Inventing Methodologies 1, Goldsmiths. “Creative
writing as a methodology?”
2004 Culture and the unconscious
II. UEL. Participation as artist, with video piece “Toast”
2004: Artist’s talk of the work in progress, Deluxe Gallery, Hoxton, London
Grants & awards
2001 IKY State Scholarship Foundation, Photography2004 1st prize for video “I see myself being seen” Security Bytes, Lancaster University, UK