Preconscious Landscape Documentation
Notes from Curator
Through his installation Sotiris invites viewers to engage with his photographs in an ephemeral manner. Through projecting a series of images onto paper via a slide projector, the viewer's interaction with the photographs mirrors the fleeting nature of memory, evoking a sense of nostalgia as the scenes and objects captured seem to slip away. The use of handmade paper further enhances the fragile, transient quality, reflecting both the inherent delicacy of the images and the elusive nature of recollection itself.
Sotiris Gonis
Sotiris is a visual artist and educator based in London working across photography, moving image, sound and installations. Interested in the relationship between architecture, natural environments and everyday practices and rituals, he attempts to visually map transitional gestures that emerge in ambivalent spaces. His works bring together images, everyday materials and found objects into constellations that trigger new associations and memories, questioning the sense of familiarity and ordinariness. Sotiris’ images, still or moving, invite the receiver to re-engage with the objects and traces they represent in novel ways. His works reject linearity, instead engaging with various possible and simultaneous temporalities and challenging time-space relations. Improvisation guides his approach to making, always leaving space for the unexpected. Sotiris is currently an Associate Lecturer in the School of Communication at the Royal College of Art in London.