Athens, August 10, 2023

CORINTH EXPOSED PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL
Corinthian International Photography Festival 2023
"Je est une autre"
Solo exhibition of Fotini Zaglaras
at the Stymphalia Environment Museum

The Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Group (PIOP), in the context of the organization of the Corintian International Photography Festival 2023 and in collaboration with the Corinthian Photography Club and the Peloponnesian Institute of Arts, opens on Sunday, September 3, 2023 (at 12:00), the solo photography exhibition entitled "Je est une autre" by the award-winning photographer Fotini Zaglaras, at the Stymphalia Environment Museum.

The exhibition is a collection of self-portraits, which started in 2018 and continues. The distinguished artist at the Sony World Photography Awards 2022, notes: “Each anthropocentric photograph tells a story, revealing the different aspects of the personality, the subjective identity, of the individual.

The idea of the project is identified with the syntactic paradox of Arthur Rimbaud's famous phrase, Je est un autre/ I am another, as through introspection we manage to "objectify" ourselves, experiencing our "being" as something detached from us. {…}

The intense presence of the directing element combined with the use of creative props, make up, and vintage clothing, enhance the narrative and drama of the images."

Exhibition duration: September 3-October 9, 2023
Opening hours: Daily, except Tuesday, 10:00-18:00

For more information, you can contact the Stymphalia Environment Museum on the phone 27470 22279 (everyday, except Tuesday, 10:00-18:00) and the Corinthian International Photography Festival on the phone, 27410 73509.

PIOP | Environment Museum of Stymphalia
200 16 Stymphalia of Corinth
T: 27470 22296 | www.piop.gr

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Fotini Zaglara is a graduate of the Pedagogy Department of the University of Ioannina and a self-taught photographer with a special love for the art of self-portraits. She explores the world of fantasy with a strong presence of surrealism in all her works, and finds the balance with reality through the interpretation she wants to give to each of her images. She has been distinguished in global photography competitions, with the latest distinction being the National Prize of the Sony World Photography Awards 2022. Her works have been exhibited in galleries in Europe and America.

The project:

"Je est une autre"

Each portrait tells a story, revealing the different aspects of the personality and identity of the person.

The idea of the project is identified with the syntactic paradox of Arthur Rimbaud's famous phrase, "Je est un autre" (= I am another), as through introspection we manage to "objectify" ourselves, experiencing our "being" as something cut off from us. The process of placing the artist's self in the history and identity of another ("persona") is fascinating and at the same time revealing, as each personality acquires its own new entity.

The intense presence of the directing element combined with the use of creative props, make up, and vintage clothing, enhance the narrative and drama of the images.