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One of Two Things
Tania Theodorou / Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky
Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie
25 Oktober - 20 November 2010

 

One of Two Things functions as a dialogue encompassing both artists' viewpoints, exploring their differences and uncovering common ground.

Our way of working converges at many points. In our work, there is a lot of appropriation and re working of pre existing images.
The opportunity to apply this process on our own and each other's finished work posed an interesting challenge.

We treat our own works as raw materials, utilizing a similar methodology as we normally would to obtain and employ images for our individual work. We use our archives as a source and combine fragments of our past and present works into a dialogue allowing us to test the limits of what can make a number of diverse works into one single entity with a unified thrust.
What we are interested in exploring here are the assumptions that we share about how art can function and how the constraints of context may affect content.

Tania Theodorou grew up in the south of Greece and studied English Language and Literature in Athens. She graduated from the photography Department of Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2005. Since then she has worked with many diverse materials focusing mostly on installations that are informed by research. Her work encourages a double take; it reveals the intricacies and ambiguities at work between a "thing' itself, and the manifold ways in which it may be understood.

Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, born in Switzerland lives and works in Amsterdam, graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2006. She uses appropriated photographs and everyday objects to create installations and collages that deal with our perception of nature, and the subjective line between reality and
fantasy. Her free and playful upbringing and strong bond with nature are of big influence and define her working method. The act of playing is a driving force in her work that enables her to practice an intuitive and open process.