On Tuesday the 21st of September opens at the middle level of the art gallery ASTROLAVOS dexameni an exhibition of photography by the artist Andriana Meyer.

Andriana Meyer presents two photo essays Contagion and Ruins of the Future.
Contagion is a photographic register of a bigger project being developed in Argentina with the Ashiro group, founded by her and Tomas Ochoa in 2001. In this project they raise contemporary conflicts: The dessert as a metaphor of the city, where the sense of reality is distorted more than ever; the sensation of emptiness that a contemporary individual has when he/she aimlessly drifts in the overwhelmed urban centers. The existential loss, when reality, which is highly invaded by media, becomes meaningless. And more hidden clues of the urban context can be found within this photo essay.

In Ruins of the Future several industrial spaces are shown as records of an organism in decadence. Nevertheless there is an aesthetic approach to the processes, which this organisms have gone trough. The medical instruments - taken from old encyclopedias - which complement the empty spaces, allude to the human body as correlative to the ruins - organism. The human absence is emphasized in order to connect these images with the viewer under this perspective of absence.

The exhibition takes part to the 11th International Month of Photography, Athens 2004.

Duration until: 14th of October.