Friday, 18 October 2024, 7:30pm Hyper Hypo invites you to the book presentation of Is That All There Is by Christos Sotiropoulos. The presentation will be accompanied by a photo exhibition and discussion.

On the evening, Kostas Ioannidis (Professor of Art Theory and Criticism - ASFA), will analyze the way in which the landscape of the Greek countryside is depicted in photography and Nikos Papachristopoulos (psychologist-psychoanalyst), will describe the basic psychographic characteristics of people living in the countryside and those living in urban centers. The show of selected photos from the book is curated by Eleni Mouzakitis.

"I realized that a part of me was always committed to the place where I grew up: the Greek countryside. My body remembered walking along inaccessible paths, smelling the dampness of the soil planted with olive trees and weeds, breathing in the hot air of summer afternoons, filtered by maple leaves. I realized that I had learned to speak and to understand the attitudes of people in a very different way from those who I encountered on my daily routine in the city; people whose imagination and personality had been shaped by the place itself.

I decided to turn my respect for the Greek countryside into a photographic book that avoids stereotypical representations and tries to highlight the complexity and peculiarities of people's symbiosis with nature. Because for me provincial Greece is not just the place where I grew up: It is the place where I matured and learned how to live as an adult."

Christos Sotiropoulos