This week on APAD: Charalampos Kydonakis with Once upon a time on the island of Minotaur.
The second week with Charalampos Kydonakis on APAD. This week will be dedicated to his project Once upon a time on the island of Minotaur.
Crete‘s strategic location exposed the island to siege and piracy continuously during the centuries: This fact pushed local people to the mountainous interior of the island to protect themselves from the pirates’ assaults across the seaside. More or less until the 70’s that tourism appeared here, the Cretans’ character, life and customs were much more related to the mountains rather than the sea. These photos are a kind of observation at the dyadic nature of Minotaur’s island, this key-shaped mountain that was planted in the Mediterranean sea.
APAD’s guest for the next two week will be Charalampos Kydonakis. The first week is dedicated to his project My dreams your nightmare.
“We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon as we are born the return begins, at once the setting forth and the coming back; we die in every moment.” (Askitiki, Nikos Kazantzakis)
When I visited the Prado museum in Madrid, the sector that impressed me most was the hall with Fransisco Goya’s “Pintura Negra”. Was this work a result of the of the painter’s late years’ mental disorder as many critics mention or was there something else going on? I’ll never find out, but I also don’t care to find out: these images are my prayer to Goya’s nightmares.
