Thalassini Douma

LINES

Photography Opening: Thursday April 19th, 19:30 – 23:00

Exhibition duration: April 19th until May 3rd 2018

Curated by: DIMITRA KOROMBILI

The Kontaki Design Gallery presents Thalassini Douma’s photographic exhibition entitled, “Lines”, which will be inaugurated on Thursday, April 19th at 19:30 and will last until Thursday, May 3rd. Art historian Lorenzo Canova, mentions: ''...a research, connected to abstraction, prides itself, with the “Lines” cycle, where buildings’ quadrangular glasses geometrical waving, ascends again to its genesis, connected to the architectonic rationalism, in a direct dialogue with research of geometric abstraction of historical avant-gardes, like for example shows excellently Mies Van der Rohe’s Saegram Building masterpiece, in New York. In those photos, the metallic external trimmings, beside light and crystals, compose a highlight and reflection weaving effect, in a further expansion of the perspective that shuts and opens by an endless game of foreshortenings and flights that occupies the whole visible level, through its unsteady geometry, and insufficient spatiality…'' The black and white series “Lines”, together with the "Dissolving Travellers" series and the "Move In" series, are part of the "Journey in the Labyrinth" trilogy. The first series was created in New York, the second in Greenland, and the third in underground canyons of Arizona. This trilogy is a multi-level journey through desolate landscapes of nature and futuristic buildings of the metropolis. Is a long journey that connects, for the understanding of nature and urban space, as they dialogue through a system of correspondences and relationships. Thalassini Douma studied at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, University of Urbino and the Roberto Rossellini Institute in Rome. She lived in Italy between 1987 and 1998, where she came into contact with the contemporary art circles of San Lorenzo and the vecchia avant-garde art in Rome. As a photojournalist, since 1991, she has covered crises in war zones and their impact on daily life on numerous assignments from the war in former Yugoslavia, to the Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Her work has appeared in major international publications including The Observer, The Guardian, The Straits Times, L' Espresso, Il Manifesto, Archaeology magazine, Expressen, etc. In 1998, she began her collaboration with the Associated Press in Athens as a photojournalist and for two years (2002-2004) she worked for the photographic department of the Press office at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Organizing Committee. Her artwork has been hosted in a series of solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad since 2006. She lives in Greece and travels frequently to create her photographic projects. * Lorenzo Canova (Rome 1967), art historian, curator and art critic.  Ph.D. in art history from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”; associate professor of the History of Contemporary Art at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Molise. He has curated exhibitions in Italian and international museums and public spaces. Founder and director of ARATRO – Archivio delle Arti Elettroniche- Laboratorio per l’Arte Contemporanea (Archive of Electronic Arts – Laboratory for Contemporary Art), Molise University, Campobasso. Member of the invitations committee of the XVth Rome Quadrennial in 2008. Collaborates with the daily newspaper Avvenire. He is member of the Scientific Council of the Giorgio e Isa de Chirico Foundation, Rome.