TITLE: Faceless: Fragments of Me (part II)

A series of intimate self portraits presenting my emocional stage. The constant struggle with depression and coping with despairing feelings.

Photos taken from a distance or capturing my reflection through a mirror. Focusing on details or letting the body sink into the darkness. Finally losing the silhouette in the black.

Like a recurring nightmare I used to have as a child. The fear of death. The fear of ending in an eternal darkness. No face, no body, no soul, no time, no essence…
Confusion…

Body and soul. Black and white. Yin and yang. Two opposite worlds composing a symmetric image. Those conflictive feelings…
Body, skin, fragments of me… Like my thoughts… Interrupted...

Balancing between melancholic atmosphere and elegance.
The fight between sorrow and patience, indifference and sensibility.
The body experiences, struggles, aches and finally surrenders to the gloomy mood.
Maybe it is my comfort zone.
Maybe I am too afraid to change.
Maybe I am so tired and exhausted.
Maybe I have learned to live with my sadness.
I have managed to accept and finally embrace my dark self.
I see the beauty, the elegance, the sensuality, the strength.
I see hope, I see me.
I am strong, I no longer fear of you...

AUTHOR: Georgia Ark (Spain)

Georgia Ark (Ioannina, Greece, 1982) is a Greek Photographer and Visual Artist. Studied Photography in Greece and continued her studies in Cinematography in Madrid (Escuela Universitaria de Artes Audiovisuales TAI). Based in Madrid, Spain since 2012.

Her work is mainly focused on self portrait and body. Struggling with depression and insomnia for years and finding a way to express and capture that sorrow in self portraits. Trying to find the elegance and the beauty despite of the darkness or sandness of the situation.

Has worked and collborated with numerous artists and performers. With director Tagore González in the video book project ¨El paje Eterno ̈ and the teatrical play ¨El Abismo de los Pájaros ̈ . With award winning director Mario Hernández in the theatrical adaptation ¨Beat G¨. With singer Lucía Scansetti in the making of ¨Basal Flame¨ video clip, and numerous musicians and groups like 23 Collective, Gut Derby, The Small Apartment, The Lucilles, Música a la Carta etc.

With dancer and choreographer Sergio Jaraiz in the Dance Film Project ¨Minótauros¨, which has been selected in Screen Dance Festival 2020 of Stockholm, Dança Em Foco Festival 2020 and V IMARP Mostra Internacional de Dança 2020 of Brasil. Has collaborated with choreographer Luz Arcas, choreographer Olga Magaña (Ararí Danza) and many more.

Another passion of hers is the theater and stage photography. Has colaborated with company Meraki Producciones and Ovella Proyecto, various actors, theater groups and stage performers.
Currently working as a freelance photographer and camera operator in Mínimo Estudio with video artist José Ramón da Cruz. Is the official videographer and photographer of the performance duo Proyecto Chilco.

Exhibitions, Awards and Publications

ITSLIQUID GROUP Winner of one International Contemporary Art Exhibition in Barcelona 2021

Fast Expos Sala Siroco, Madrid, March 2019
Inconexas y Mezcladas, Colective Exposition with Proyecto Chilco and Miguel Bernuy

Photographic Mercadillo, April 2019 (online)
(www.instagram.com/photographicmercadillo)

Photometria Festival, Ioannina - Greece, June 2015
Inauguration of the festival with the short film ̈My Life In Black And White ̈