Eva Voutsaki's statement:
I walk through this limited time given to me, named life. And in this transitory period I try to enlighten all my fears, my emotions and desires.
My camera travels with me into this symbolic voyage of nocturnal light; from darkness to light and then back again.
The photographs: seascapes under the full moon, animals, lonely women and men- form an anecdote diary with spontaneous and accidental images that enable the viewer to travel smoothly and secretly into his own memories. The outer reality is transformed into a stream of dislocated and ambiguous images. I try to re-mythologize and re-invent myself.
Intuition is my only guide and the traces are always to be found within me, in my early memories, my dreams and nightmares.
Joanna Lowry (MA in Photography course leader, University of Brighton, 2009):
'' Eva's eloquent dream-like pictures have been plucked, as if random, from the flow of events; she tracks them through the spaces of the everyday capturing glimpses of random beauty, sweet joy and haunting fear. Following the logic of the dream-work or the film they form temporary fragmentary narratives, that remain for a while, and then disappear, re-emerging in some other form-some further re-working of memory and time. These pictures do have the quality of hallucination: of events misremembered that remain in our imaginations like screen memories, disguising what might have been true. ''
Leiden International Festival (2014):
Eva's enigmatic images create short, mysterious narratives without beginning or end. But most of all they mesmerize the viewer into drifting away in one's own thoughts, dreams and fantasies.
I walk through this limited time given to me, named life. And in this transitory period I try to enlighten all my fears, my emotions and desires.
My camera travels with me into this symbolic voyage of nocturnal light; from darkness to light and then back again.
The photographs: seascapes under the full moon, animals, lonely women and men- form an anecdote diary with spontaneous and accidental images that enable the viewer to travel smoothly and secretly into his own memories. The outer reality is transformed into a stream of dislocated and ambiguous images. I try to re-mythologize and re-invent myself.
Intuition is my only guide and the traces are always to be found within me, in my early memories, my dreams and nightmares.
Joanna Lowry (MA in Photography course leader, University of Brighton, 2009):
'' Eva's eloquent dream-like pictures have been plucked, as if random, from the flow of events; she tracks them through the spaces of the everyday capturing glimpses of random beauty, sweet joy and haunting fear. Following the logic of the dream-work or the film they form temporary fragmentary narratives, that remain for a while, and then disappear, re-emerging in some other form-some further re-working of memory and time. These pictures do have the quality of hallucination: of events misremembered that remain in our imaginations like screen memories, disguising what might have been true. ''
Leiden International Festival (2014):
Eva's enigmatic images create short, mysterious narratives without beginning or end. But most of all they mesmerize the viewer into drifting away in one's own thoughts, dreams and fantasies.