'12 DOMESTIC GODS' PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT EXHIBITED AT PRIMO ALONSO GALLERY LONDON 07 AND 'CONNECTED ' AT SPILIOTI PROJECTS,ATHENS 2008
PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT BY CHRISTINA MITRENTSE
12 Colour Photographs 30x45cm each
‘12 DOMESTIC GODS’
In an incessant reference to metaphor, which defines the significance of natural occurrences within the everyday, Christina’s Mitrentse projects negotiate the deconstruction of our conceptual mechanisms. She has inhabited a space between knowledge and emotion, where the notion of interpretation is to be found at the same place within the institutionalized information the scientific field and the co-existence of aesthetics.
Within this context, the ‘12 DOMESTIC GODS’ is a photographic project, which deals with the representation of sculptures based on the12 Olympian Greek Gods. It juxtaposes parallels of ‘high art’, antiquity and the contemporary domestic life. This contextual transmission from the banal to the monumental is counter-balanced with the allegory of the imagery, in which the performative narratives function as reconstructions of the primary “narrations” of beauty.
PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT ON THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF NATURE 2006
Watermellon lesson at University, colour photograph 60x80cm
Watermellon Lesson at The Nursery,colour photo 60x80cm
DNA structure, colour photo 20x15cm
DNA structure, colour photographs 20x15cm each
Growing Crystals chart, colour photographs,dimensions variable