Ilias Georgiadis

A few years ago, I read a story about some swallows.
One day, residents of various cities by waking up in the morning, they found outside their windows hundreds of swallows immobilized, waiting. Staring into nowhere, with their eyes wide open.
Crowded in every recess, on the balconies of buildings, in windows, in air ducts, even sitting on the road. In complete immobility and barely protected in their temporary shelters, they waited. And the story went on to explain the phenomenon.[…]”
“Forecast” is the new body of work that Ilias has been developing for the last five years. It starts by following the journey of some swallows traveling from the earth’s south to the north and slowly it morphs into a photographic corpus of poetry. A journey that is trying to find and capture an inner peace, a unique and universal cosmic balance of the inner self, driven and surrounded by the forces and the beauty of nature. A photographic narration that highlights the minimal, the abstract and the lyrical that give meaning to our existence and human nature.
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“Forecast » is a corpus which includes hundreds of pictures that challenge and exceed linear photographic narratives by creating transformational elliptic patterns of meaning and story-telling that almost never end. A concept heavily inspired by fugues in music and by the earth’s movement in space and the change of seasons.
This work is also accompanied by an original music score – composition written by and performed by Greek composer and pianist Daphne Kotsiani which is then elliptically remixed by various Greek composers and music artists.
“Forecast” is going to be published as a photobook by the end of 2022.
This is the first exhibition of the work.
Ilias Georgiadis