Artist presentation

Ypatia Kornarou

Ypatia Kornarou is a photographer and curator based in Athens. She has studied economics and photography. She has been dealing with fine art photography since her beginnings in the photographic world. Her first solo exhibition “Save the Forest” was held at the Environment Museum of Stymphalia and was transferred, following an invitation of the Hellenic Photographic Society of Mytilene, to the Archaeological Site-Castle of Mytilene. At the Papagos-Holargos Town Hall she has held the exhibition “Freud’s Dreams”. In May 2024, at TAF the art foundation, she participated in the dyadic photography exhibition “Forsaken Places”. Additionally, in 2024 she held her first solo exhibition abroad, in Russia. Her photographic work “Phenomenon” was exhibited by invitation at the Gallery Space Place and was subsequently transferred to the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts.

Artist statement

Photography is a human gaze that stops viewing the world with stoicism; instead, it relies on oblivion to photograph a 'reconstructed reality' in a static manner.

The photographic work “Mood” serves, through visual narration, as a reminder of the visibility of emotional states. Moods are embodied by the human body and are experienced based on how we perceive the reality of a fleeting or permanent condition.

Through this work, I encounter a personal challenge as I become an observer of everything, almost ritualistically, evoking the emotional oscillations that disturb the human psyche.

The visual exploration of the relationship between the subjectivity of moods and the stimuli that trigger them was conducted over approximately two years. Since moods can be experienced from even the slightest reason, I had to train myself to recognise their presence in the most unexpected situations.