Thursday, January 23, 2014

'My Unique Self"


‘My unique self'


Artists responded to this call out :
Challenge the conventional gender/race/skin color limitations.

Show your unique gender that otherwise would have been the opposite one. Show both your genders as one or a third one.

What if your skin is white but you are black, yellow or red? Show your unique skin color and racial characteristics.

I show my unique self with a photo, painting, sculpture, sketch, painting, a musical piece, a poem, a performance, dance, with my own style of dressing. Whether it is a re-invention of myself or not, it is a representation or metaphor of my genuine self. A self portrait. All experiments welcome.

Ένας ταξιδιώτης είμαι...
Κι ένας πλοηγός...
Και κάθε στιγμή, ανακαλύπτω μιά καινούργια πτυχή μέσα μου.
Μιά φορά μόνον βουβάθηκα...
Όταν κάποιος με ρώτησε, Ποιος Είσαι......'

Khalil Gibran


'I am a traveler ..
And a navigator.
And each time, I discover a new aspect within me.
Only once I was speechless ...
When someone asked me, Who are you ...'
Khalil Gibran




 




 

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Friday, August 23, 2013

'Aphrodite's pomegranate'

'Aphrodite's pomegranate' 
 photo of the month July for
 Sydney Alumni Magazine 2013Travel Photo Competition 'People, Places and Nature'.









 

Monday, April 22, 2013

Verge Gallery, April 2013,Collaboration between Eora -SCA

Flora Mavrommati : images for  'Sand Goddess', 'Goddess with Crescent and Sun','Ankh' :
The photos were created during August 2012 in Cyprus after the excavation project at the Sanctuary of Aphrodite and the Rantidi Forest. They are ideograms of the Goddess ,that were revealed in found natural objects, which I had been offered to decipher, as a researcher and 'excavator'. The photos gave an inspiration to more artists  to present their archaeology related works. In these images first is the crossed shaped figurine of the Goddess in anthropomorphic T form. Second  in the shape of Y is the Ka, Egyptian symbol  of protection and the union between body and spirit and third is the Ankh, Key of Life.

 
Spirit and the feminine is worshipped in geographically distinct cultures, like native aboriginal Australian and Cypriot. This is a collaborative painting by Flora Mavrommati (SCA) and Timothy Williams (Eora Tafe) the video projection of process was filmed and edited by Flora Mavrommati, and the installation was a concept by Dr Greg Shapley.

Artists' inspiration: Cultures from two very distinct places of the world, Cyprus and Australia, recognize the same creative force of Nature. Bodies and Spirits, Female and Male, Lunar and Solar we all share with Earth..
http://eorasca.tumblr.com/



From the exhibition 'Working Title: a collaborative exhibition between Eora College and Sydney College of the Arts students' which took place in conjunction with the USU Indigenous Festival 2013
Verge Gallery,University of Sydney, 18 April-3 May 2013,
curated by Fiona Dorrell and Meghan Rheynolds
http://verge-gallery.net/2013/04/11/31486/


 a video recording during the last night of the exhibition :'Music moving, moving image': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYtIWB2IO40


 

Thursday, June 28, 2012

'Bio- Anthropomorphic Symmetries', photography solo show, GSGC,Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney,

the image indicates only the idea of the landscape as body
it wasn't presented as such.

Zygomorphic vegetative formulae, reflect the microcosm-macrocosm relationship between Self (archetype of unity) and nature. The opposites seek one another in order to create a balance between order-chaos, body-psyche, male-female.


http://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/app/webroot/files/211/873/

http://rcap.org.au/flora-mavrommati-bio-anthropomorphic-symmetries/

opening:18th July 2012, 6-8pm
duration : 11th-27th July 2012, Monday-Friday , 11am-5pm

Thursday, January 19, 2012

' Biomorphy ' 2012, solo painting and photography exhibition by Flora Mavrommati

 





"BIOMORPHY" ˂ bio + morph = life form [ from the Greek: βίος + μορφή]: Shapes from Chloris captured in Australia’s nature.Life forms that appear bilaterally symmetrical, like the biological structure of leaves and flowers, or the structure of reproductive systems of animals. In this exhibition, biomorphy is used as a metaphor, reflecting human resemblance to the natural world. Mavrommati’s work explores the polarities in humans and nature, but also the asymmetries and connections, such as the brain’s relationship to our body.

image: "Alia- Emersion of Aphrodite", 2011, acrylic on canvas , 61x76cm, copyright of the artist 

Chrissie Cotter Gallery

Opening: Wed 29  February 2012 ,6-8pm
Duration: 29 Feb   - 4 March 2012, 11am - 4pm
Pidcock st. Camperdown NSW 2050
 Sydney, Australia
0406 957 339