Biography
Nikolas Ventourakis’s practice balances
between art and documentation in an
attempt to interrogate the extensions and
limits of the photographic image. Central
to Ventourakis’s visual research is a denial
for one-way resolutions and an invitation
to embrace an ambiguous imagery, where
the photographic is real, and the familiar is
a projection of a mix of personal and social
memory with abstract thinking.
Ventourakis’s fascination lies in our
need for stories to be conclusive, which
cannot but clash with the impossibility for
apparent pictures to act as evidence of an
objective-truth. In this way his work, often
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Biography
Nikolas Ventourakis’s practice balances
between art and documentation in an
attempt to interrogate the extensions and
limits of the photographic image. Central
to Ventourakis’s visual research is a denial
for one-way resolutions and an invitation
to embrace an ambiguous imagery, where
the photographic is real, and the familiar is
a projection of a mix of personal and social
memory with abstract thinking.
Ventourakis’s fascination lies in our
need for stories to be conclusive, which
cannot but clash with the impossibility for
apparent pictures to act as evidence of an
objective-truth. In this way his work, often
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