I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own. I pick it up, exile that I am, like the purple “lucky stones” I used to collect with a white ring all the way round, or the shell of a blue mussel with its rainbowy angel’s fingernail interior; and in one wash of memory the colors deepen and gleam, the early world draws breath.
From Sylvia Plath’s poem Ocean 1212 W.
Luminous Eye is hosting Nikos Konstantinidis solo exhibition “The Early World” curated by Costas Goudis
«The Early World” was born little by little, more out of inner necessity than as a preconceived idea, during a period of personal questioning and exploration of the boundaries of the definite and the indistinct, reality and fiction. Thus emerged a world of silence and stillness immersed in twilight.
Νikos Konstantinidis
With The Early World series of images, Nikos Konstantinidis wants to show us a world beyond appearances, a world of contemplation which one in order to see has to squint their eyes, pierce the matrix of information and reach up to the screen of empathy.
It is not by chance his images are images of sea, of water.
In the metaphor he attempts, emerges a word of uncertainty, an early world, an archetype.
Costas Goudis
Nikos Konstantinidis was born in Veroia in the late 50s. He is a doctor and a dedicated photographer since 2005. His work has been presented in shows and magazines in Greece and abroad. He has published three photographic albums.
Opening:
Friday 21 October 2022 at 17:00
Exhibition duration:
21 – 30 October 2022
Days and Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday 17:00 – 21:00
