Photoday | Galerie | MASTERCLASS 2016 | Athanasios Gatos, ENSAV La Cambre

There is a little Cave, brings together works produced during the last year between belgium and greece. The beggining source of inspiration and reference was a 60's hollywood film called 'Boy on a Dolphin'. A romantic and surreal story, on the background of a pittoresce small greek island, that's about a myth of a gold statue of a boy riding on a dolphin. Athanasios Gatos in this project approches his work like it was archive photos, as an existing material available to reconsider and deconstruct in order to recreate a new environment. He uses mainly photography, as well video installation, he prints and he rephotographs,he scans,he reprints,in order to create new images-icons, using the same time objects he finds during his visual research. The main idea wondering in this work is the status of the 'exotic' image as the desire hyper-object through media. The insular world as a mystical land promoted today through advertising as a place of leisure and relaxation, advertised fantasies detached from the mainland, existing in walls of touristing agencies and posters pertaining to a better future.