Phenomena

Limited Edition Box Set by Antigone Kourakou
A selection of twelve photographs, 2010-2018

The twelve photographs in Antigone Kourakou’s Phenomena series, reminds us of the inexhaustible capacity photography has to transmute reality. They discretely lead us to the threshold of a quite unanticipated, silent introspection. By stirring up deep-rooted images and moments, Kourakou’s photography prompts to imagine. The elliptical description of situations and persons, define moments whose completion requires our contribution. We need to restore perspective, to compose faces from lines and shapes, so as to, ultimately, discover the associative relationships that articulate the photographer’s personal style.

Kourakou directs by minimally drawing from reality – faces, gestures, branches, leaves, thick shadows – and recomposes an enigmatic world. Looking at her photographs, we come to realize that what lies at the core of her work is not so much the reality she encounters, but the shaping of a balance between reality and fantasy, a balance which is always in keeping with the dynamic composition of her frames.

Costis Antoniadis
Emeritus Professor of Photography, UniWA

Photography by Antigone Kourakou
Edited by Costis Antoniadis
Graphic design by Xenophon Philippousis
Box designed and handcrafted by
Yiannis Evangelidis - Duende fine bindings

Clothbound clamshell box with hot foil stamp cover
Text in a triptych format
12 archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta Satin paper
Certificate of Authenticity

Edition of 15
Prints signed and numbered by the artist

English text

Box Size: 45 x 31.7 x 3.1 cm
Paper Size: 43 X 30.5 cm
Image Size: 39 X 26.5 cm