2024 / Divine Transitions / Solo exhibition / 07 - 12 Sep. / Iazul Morilor Center / Buzău, Romania
...Photography captures the ephemeral, the fleeting moment that may either reveal or conceal the truth of the moment. Art photography, in the case of Haris Germanidis, only reveals, by following the reverse process of that technique known as pentimento - wherein layers of representation, older studies of a subject, overlap, each new one covering the other. Through the use of colour, light, and mixed media, Germanidis evokes the hidden layers of the sitter, ones that plain photography cannot reveal. All the different layers of the subject's psyche and the aura they emanate successfully coexist in the finished portrait for all the world to see.
There is a sense of sobriety and almost religious sacredness in many of his portraits, but the meaning behind each one is in the eyes of the beholder. As in all fine art works the artist does not 'mean', they suggest, the viewer perceives this through their own personal filter. In my eyes, the deliberate choice of the sombre elements in the sitters' pose and invokes the transcendent that exists in the secular, the sacred in the profane, the soul inhabiting the body...
Maria Haka Flokos
Architect /author
Architect /author