maria Paschalidou artist, art professor www.mariapaschalidou.com paschalmari@yahoo.com Athens, October 13, 2012
Seeing the Unseen Seeing the Unseen is an ongoing project of tracing the ‘unseen’, the most invisible and/or unobserved sites of an urban environment. It is a collection of hundreds of photographic images taken in the major cities of Greece over the past twenty years, including Athens, Thessaloniki and some of the rural areas. Maria Paschalidou (Athens, 1966) is an artist working with the photographic and digital imaging, video and installation. Her work blurs the boundaries between ‘real’ and ‘unreal’, the space among fiction, image and narrative by employing ‘visual’ metaphors, fabricated environments, ephemeral constructions and participatory installations. She has participated in exhibitions, festivals and art projects in Europe, US, Canada, Russia, Australia and China. Her research interests include initiatives for collaborative projects and participative acts in art as well as activities that attempt to understand the visibility of the art product in ‘dichotomies’ such as image-language, theory-praxis, artist-audience. She is a PhD candidate, Imaging and Creative technologies, De Montfort University, UK and holds a MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, US. She currently lives in Athens where she works as an art professor specializing in Photography (conceptual approaches and interventions) and digital imaging & video.
maria Paschalidou artist, art professor www.mariapaschalidou.com paschalmari@yahoo.com Athens, October 13, 2012
Seeing the Unseen Seeing the Unseen is an ongoing project of tracing the ‘unseen’, the most invisible and/or unobserved sites of an urban environment. It is a collection of hundreds of photographic images taken in the major cities of Greece over the past twenty years, including Athens, Thessaloniki and some of the rural areas. Maria Paschalidou (Athens, 1966) is an artist working with the photographic and digital imaging, video and installation. Her work blurs the boundaries between ‘real’ and ‘unreal’, the space among fiction, image and narrative by employing ‘visual’ metaphors, fabricated environments, ephemeral constructions and participatory installations. She has participated in exhibitions, festivals and art projects in Europe, US, Canada, Russia, Australia and China. Her research interests include initiatives for collaborative projects and participative acts in art as well as activities that attempt to understand the visibility of the art product in ‘dichotomies’ such as image-language, theory-praxis, artist-audience. She is a PhD candidate, Imaging and Creative technologies, De Montfort University, UK and holds a MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, US. She currently lives in Athens where she works as an art professor specializing in Photography (conceptual approaches and interventions) and digital imaging & video.