Lesbos
by Graziella Antonini
- Printed in France
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Exhibition available in 2 formats for outdoor use and 1 format for indoor use.
“For several years, I have been collecting plants, seeds, small objects and stones which are the memory of my experiences, of my travels.
In December 2017, I was invited to participate in a European artistic research program bringing together students, artists, philosophers and economists to work on the question of territory. I went to Lesbos, an island on the border of Europe.
How can you go to Greece without thinking about its history, its philosophers and scholars? For example, it was in Lesbos that Theophrastus was born, around 300 BC.
A student of Aristotle, author of the oldest known treatise on botany, Theophrastus was my first guide.
My other guide was Mustapha.
Mustapha buries the dead among the olive trees, according to Muslim rites. Some have names, others have no identity.
In Lesbos, I collected plants and objects that I photographed. I have tried to identify the plants, to give them a name, to find their family.
The subjective evocation of events, places and people.
• Outdoors: choose locations where people take a walk and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the centre of the town, near a school, in a public garden or along a walking trail... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: reception hall, office, waiting room, dining room, meeting room - choose the best-lit space.
CAUTION: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The papers we have chosen for printing our exhibitions meet two essential criteria, among others: beautiful colour rendering and durability.
• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are to be displayed in a slightly damp location.
For outdoor displays, our poster formats have been chosen to best suit “election” billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor exhibition (50 x 70 cm): 8 prints to hang on 5 linear metres of free wall space.
Full view of the exhibition
Graziella Antonini
A graduate of the Vevey School of Photography (Switzerland) in 1989 and of the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris Cergy in 2016, Graziella Antonini attempts to capture, to suggest the traces, the marks, the signs of what is not, of what is no longer, of what is not yet.
