Berlin / Studio
1995
The work is displayed as part of the permanent exhibition
Photography
C-print
153 × 157 cm
Presented as part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift
An autobiographical tone permeates the work of Christina Dimitriadis (1967, Thessaloniki, Greece), which touches upon spatial and temporal transitions. The artist employs the photographic medium to explore, analyse, and record human relationships and human boundaries, the self, mutable identities, alienation in space and time, memory and oblivion, and conflicting emotions. In her photographic works, the architectural and spatial element are always prominent, not in the sense of a public or structured space but instead in the form of a private space and articulated as a strictly structured and staged image from which the element of randomness is absent.
The works Berlin/Studio and Thessaloniki/Living room II belong to the Private Spaces series with which Dimitriadis engaged in the mid-1990s and delved into what she calls “living environments"". These entail a series of directed self-portraits of her in intimate, private interior spaces, such as her parents’ home or her apartment in Germany. The artist – photographed differently from place to place – is blurrily portrayed due to the prolonged exposure time, as a result of which she appears to dissolve into the surrounding space. Through these works, she explored family relationship in an autobiographical manner, posing questions about how we “exist” inside our private spaces.
Christina Dimitriadis was born in Thessaloniki. She lives and works in Berlin. She studied photography at Parsons School of Design – New School for Social Research (1992) and Film/Video Arts (1993) in New York. She has presented her work in solo exhibitions at the following spaces (selection): Akaretler No:55, Istanbul (2022), Badisches Landesmuseum Schloss Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, (2018); Athens Municipality Arts Center (2018); Galeria Studio, Warsaw (2015); Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens (2012); Galerie Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen (2008); and Galerie Deux, Tokyo (2000). Recent group exhibitions include: Twister, nGBK, Berlin (2022), I Saw the Sign, Schau Fenster, Berlin (2021), Note di Sguardi Berlin, Bibliothek am Wasserturm / Museum Pankow, Berlin (2020), Transfert, STUDIO, Warsaw (2019).