- Venue
- SSE SPACE
- Starts
- Tuesday, June 21, 2011
- Ends
- Saturday, September 17, 2011
- Address
- 40 Store St London WC1E 7DB
- Location
- London
Entitled Olympia, after the automaton described in ETA Hoffmann’s short story Der Sandmann (1816), Yorgos Loizos’ first solo exhibition consists of a series of handcrafted photographic works. Created using surrealist techniques including solarization and the photogram, these editions evoke the notion of the uncanny through a use of imagery that is both familiar and odd, and by blurring perceptions of the animate and the inanimate. Featuring fragments of a mannequin doll and sculptures of cityscapes, each composition was formed as a constructed, studio based, vista of space. Washed in a bain-marie of chemical liquids and exposed to ‘accidental’ light leaks, the works describe impossible spaces inhabited by doll bodies.As part of SSE Space’s active encouragement of cross-disciplinary collaboration, members of The Young Writer’s Society, UCL have been invited to submit short responses to individual works.for more information please visit: http://cargocollective.com/yorgosloizoswww.ssespace.co.uk
