User:Polikosasteras1/Christina Dimitriadis

Christina Dimitriadis is a greek-german artist, born in Thessaloniki in 1967. Today, she lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Through her lens she studies living environments and focuses on spatial and temporal transitions. She is working for more than twenty years and she has consistently dealt with the boundaries and the identity of man and his alienation in space and time.

In her simply structured photographs prevail an architectural tone and a minimalist setting, where the absence of the accidental is clear. An essentialist and monumental character emerges through her images, even when dealing with the unseen. In this way, the gaze, in order to construct a different representation, another reading, opposed to trivial and stereotypical depiction, is directed to another place, often invisible.

As she once said, one way to interpret the themes of her work is to imagine what happens when someone drops a pebble into calm waters: the surface of the water creates symmetrical, concentric waves. Her practice works that way, like a vibration of parallel circles. She starts with the individual and moves towards the personal, the social, the political and the historical.