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Parallel Crisis

Yannis Karpouzis

"Each animal is defined by a blow". Heracletus, late 6th century BCE.

Over the last six years a destructive financial crisis has struck Greece, dismantling an already wrecked social balance and driving the population into a state of collective depression. A condition of stagnation is ruling the capital city of Athens. The project Parallel Crisis is a creative document that addresses the ways in which the Medium of Photography is capable of describing this socio-economical event. An uneasy affinity develops between the property of photography to produce events of immobilised time and the negation of social time that widespread crisis instigates. 

What photography is really recording in Greece, is a certain condition of numbness: subjects without the possibility of development, crippling unemployment, confined migrants, neighbourhoods reigned by silence and fear. In these conditions, the Medium suspends time that has already been stalled. Photography itself is conceived as a metaphor, a mirror of the financial crisis.

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Yannis Karpouzis

Yannis Karpouzis

Greece

Yannis Karpouzis is a Greek based artist working with Photography, Film and Video. He has studied to the Technical university of Athens (Diploma), Copenhagen's DTU (Erasmus), Architecture school of Athens (Master of Science) and the Fine Art School of Athens (Master of Arts). 

He has been awarded the Descubrimientos prize in PHotoEspana 2015 and the Portfolio Review Prize in Athens Photo Festival 2016. Parallel Crisis and other works has been presented to major Greek and international institutions (New museum of New York - Benaki Museum, Rencontres d'Arles, Contemporary art museum of Thessaloniki, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, PHotoEspana, Magnum agency, MedPhoto festival, Photo-Beijing). After completing 3 short films, he now directs a documentary film about the poet Nikos Karouzos (production: Greek Film Center and Faliro House Productions). 

Yannis is an author and researcher of structural and post-structural methodology on aesthetic theories of cinema, photography and art history. His continuing project has to do with Østerport Hotel , an unfinished sci-fi film of the Danish avant guard film-maker, Walter Markersen.

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