Mundus
Sophia Tolika
Self Published
English and Greek
Edited by: Moritz Neumüller
Text translation and editing by Stavros Fotiados
Softcover
112 pages
148 x 210mm
2021
ISBN Not Available
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MUNDUS (the Latin word for World) is a journey through spaces and materials, signs of life and personal items investigating the relationship between the subterranean world and the Cosmos.Photos, taken between 2010-2019 during the construction of underground infrastructure in the city of Thessaloniki reveal an invisible world that is in constant flux, shaped through explosions and demolitions, metamorphoses and transformations, thrusts and reconstructions. Connotations are evoked primarily from visual references to outer space, space missions and astronomical drawings, as well as through the alternating scale and angle of view of the pictures.MUNDUS brings out the beauty of exploration and the mystery of creation combining art with science, the imaginary with the real and the earthy with the aerial, through a visual process that borrows from geology, engineering, astronomy, mathematics and art.
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About the Artist
Sophia Tolika was born in 1978 in Thessaloniki, Greece, and studied civil engineering in Thessaloniki (Bachelor) and Paris (D.E.A. in Ecole Centrale).In 2005 she got introduced to the world of photography.She is also involved with video making & editing, slideshows and collecting sounds.She has also studied photography at I.I.E.K. E.S.P.Sophia has also studied Aesthetic Education at the School of Early Childhood Education at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.The State Museum of Contemporary Art possesses most of the works she exhibited at the context of the 5th Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, 2015.
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