Maria Mavropoulou. Family Portraits Holy Trinity

Maria Mavropoulou
Holy Trinity (triptych), 2018
Lightboxes, 60 x 40 cm each
Courtesy of the artist

Holy Trinity is a triptych depicting a smartphone, tablet and laptop, the three bastions of contemporary communication, work and entertainment. The screens of these devices allow access to this parallel human-made universe of digital connectivity, which has transformed our lives and social relations from providing answers to the simplest task, to shaping our views and the way we perceive the world around us. Our connection with these devices is intimate, and often obsessive and addictive. The almost religious awe with which we treat them is highlighted here by the inner glow they transmit.

Maria Mavropoulou uses mainly photography while her work expands to new forms of the photographic image, such as VR and screen captured images. Her research focuses on the new realities created by the connectible devices and the contradictions between the physical and the digital spaces that we inhabit. Her aesthetics explore the boundary line between plausibility or not, potentiality and non-potentiality, random and constructed. Playing with the perception of viewers she aspires to question the role and power of photography in an era that is dominated by it. Her first VR project “Family Portraits” has been awarded at the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (2019).

Biography

Maria Mavropoulou lives and works in Athens. She completed her MFA studies at Athens School of Fine Arts in 2018, from where she attained her BA in 2014. Her work has been presented in the Culturescapes festival (Basel, CH, 2017), Athens Photo Festival (EL, 2016), Krakow Photomonth (PL, 2016), Athens Biennale 5 to 6 (EL, 2015, 2017), 5th Thessaloniki Biennale (EL, 2015), Mois de la photo (Paris, FR, 2014), European month of photography (Budapest, HU, 2014), Fotoistanbul (Istanbul, TR, 2014) and Benaki museum (Athens, EL, 2014). She is a member of the Depression Era collective of artists who inhabit the urban and social landscapes of the crisis and post-crisis in Greece.

https://www.mariamavropoulou.com/

 

 

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