ROLE PLAYING

The person as form, mask, role. The individual as part of a social whole, as part of one functional “whole.” Roles with explicit specifications for a society according to the needs of each time. Models, symbolisms, and stereotypes that determine the socially compatible.

The public and private life. The social role and the individual character. Two different worlds.

The individual with obscure transformations as the day passes through. Wearing different ”hats”, he becomes everything: the father, the husband, the lover, the friend, the worker, the consumer, the successful, the social, the solitary, the socially maladjusted…Roles, but not fake, conforming to the needs of the moment. A phenomenon beyond time and cultures.

The plurality of the individual. The individual as a mask - or better as masks – that reflects society. The personal ‘ego,’ sometimes powerful and sometimes weak exists somewhere between these forms.

The woman that is not born, but becomes. The “eyzonas” that is no longer an individual but a symbol. And the depiction of a fantastic world, beyond the life that we have met.

STRAY KAT

Charmed by figures that do acrobatics between theatricality and the personal truth, through photography she seeks to record accidental moments, experienced from a different perception. Behind the scene. A truth marginalized, but absolutely real. Stray Kat finds the feminine dynamics in drag shows and burlesque representations. By women that are not born but become - like the butterfly that transforms, becomes beautiful, and then dies.

The whole of her work is created in situ, without concrete structures, with emphasis on the object and female sexuality. She examines the exhausting force of human souls as it is expressed by the body in which they are trapped. The magic is found in the moment where she sees the personality behind the role, the taboo behind make-up, herself behind the lens.

J LIO

‘I find it quite amusing, during some really boring evenings, to talk with unknown people on the internet. You can start any kind of discussion, you can agree, argue, and even fall in love. In general I do not meet my interlocutors apart from very few exceptions. Especially the one with the “eyzonas.” I simply wanted to confirm if what they say is true.’ J LIO

LEO

The uniform as a symbol, an emblem, an idea. The same uniform that is filled with the human body. The role that is incarnated by the man. The man that leaves his personal self outside his clothes. The person that loses his personality. The individual that becomes symbol. An individual-symbol that does not refer to the reality of the individual without the uniform.

PEIO

Peio illustrates scenes from a sphere between reality and imagination, mainly imagination. With street art and punk culture as a starting line, but also influences from Mexican cultural traditions and traditional Japanese graphic design, his representations balance between two worlds. On Día de los Muertos (the day of the dead) the living honor – without lamentation- the dead that have passed on to another stage which is believed to be the beginning of real life. Deathly figures, skeletons, disguises, and masks, refer to the universal subject of the beginning and the end of human existence. Pictures of white and black that hover between typography, illustration, graphic design, street art, and traditional arts of other cultures, touch upon values and ideas that cannot be characterized by the limits of space and time.

Ιason Kontovrakis