ARTIST’S STATEMENT:Iliana Theodoropoulou

Since 2005 I have been observing and photographing cracks on Athenian pavements. I was fascinated by    the way nature was creating those powerful drawings made by weather, decay and human feet.. Gradually I collected a great number of photographs and this motivated me to begin a large series of works inspired by those cracks.  In 2018  I looked down to the pavements and saw all those cracks as traces of all the people who have lived  here.. My eyes and my feet tracing the patterns of their lives. A new project begun, I drew the actual cracks on long stripes of paper or inside Japanese books as they can be folded and unfolded again. I wanted  to hide those memories by folding the paper. Slowly as the project was evolving I started creating autobiographical work by searching my own traces on pavements around areas where I have lived, in my old neighbourhoods not only in Athens but also in London and Berlin.

Contact:
Iliana Theodoropoulou
Tel: +30 6936939789
itheodoropoulou@yahoo.gr
www.ilianatheodoropoulou.com
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Iliana Theodoropoulou, Self portrait as a cracked pavement , 2018, mixed media on folded paper, 80 x125 cm, © & Courtesy the artist
Iliana Theodoropoulou, Self portrait as a cracked pavement, 2018, mixed media on folded paper, 80 x125 cm, © & Courtesy the artist

 

 

Iliana Theodoropoulou, Self portrait as a cracked pavement, 2018, 24 clay tiles, 20 x 20 cm, variable dimensions, © & Courtesy the artist
Iliana Theodoropoulou, Self portrait as a cracked pavement, 2018, 24 clay tiles, 20 x 20 cm, Dimensions variable, © & Courtesy the artist

 

 

Iliana Theodoropoulou, Self Folded pavement, 2013-2018, mixed media on folded paper,40 x (7 x 40) = 40 x 280 cm, © & Courtesy the artist
Iliana Theodoropoulou, Self Folded pavement, 2013-2018, mixed media on folded paper,40 x (7 x 40) = 40 x 280 cm, © & Courtesy the artist

 

 

Iliana Theodoropoulou, Invisible thread , 2015 mixed media on paper , 47.5 x 85.5 cm, © & Courtesy the artist
Iliana Theodoropoulou, Invisible thread, 2015, Mixed media on paper , 47.5 x 85.5 cm, © & Courtesy the artist

 

 

Iliana Theodoropoulou, Red Thread, 2015, media on paper, 48 x 89 cm, © & Courtesy the artist
Iliana Theodoropoulou, Red Thread, 2015, Mixed media on paper, 48 x 89 cm, © & Courtesy the artist