Haris Epaminonda Book

The Haris Epaminonda artists book came out this week. The book on which we, in the → One Week Studio worked on for a week, was published during her exhibition in the Malmö Konsthall. It solely presents her series of polaroids, nothing more nothing less. And once again, thanks to Robert Sollis and Rasmus Spanggaard Troelsen from the Design Studio → Europa for the great workshop.



Haris Epaminonda (1980, Cyprus. Lives and works in Berlin) works mainly with photographs, collage and video. The point of departure for her paper collages is found material from books and magazines from the 50s and 60s. Her videos and films are composed out of disparate found film footage as well as the artist’s own filmed sequences.

Epaminonda’s moving images are in many instances overlapping or juxtaposed with one another in ways that any threads of potential meaning (political utopias, gender, cultures of collecting) weave in and out of each other and thus evoke a dreamlike distant world. In the 1950s and 1960s, from which the found footage often comes, the idea of progress and fascination for the future seemed filled with both hope and fear, and Epaminonda’s work moves between a real and potential or illusory past/future. This creates a poetic, surreal and uncanny maze as if the found and reworked material is a loophole in time.

It will be the first time Haris Epaminonda will be shown in Sweden and at Malmö Konsthall she will create an installational environment formed of different works including paper works and moving image.

Haris Epaminonda studied at Royal College of Art and Kingston University, London. She corepresented Cyprus at the 52nd Venice Biennial (2007) and took part at the 5th Berlin Biennial, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2008) as well as the 9th Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah United Arab Emirates(2009).

Her solo exhibition in the Malmö Konsthall started on April 2nd and will last until May 10th 2009. Check out the website for more information.

→ Malmö Konsthall