Skin as shelter

I am honoured to participate with my photo „Honey searching for Bunny 2“ at Skin as Shelter, the photography exhibition at the prestigious „House of Lucie“- Center for Photography in Athens, Greece,  curated by the New York-based Thalia Vrachopoulos.

“Skin as Shelter relates the concept of human skin to its innate relationship with architecture. Visual artists Nikos Giavropoulos, Artemis Alcalay, Domniki Mitropoulou, Frank Gimpaya, Cyriaco Lopes, Lilia Ziamou, Alexander Zafeiridis, George Kanis, Eva

Petric and Maria Bourbou examine the idea of skin as an architectural sanctum, in order to visually compose geometrical or irregular, complex structures of organic modulation and biomorphic patterns that exceed the function of animal skin or human skin.

Architecture extends the organic and psychological qualities of human skin. Heat regulation or vital protection against external environments are functions proper to both architecture and human skin, as the organ of skin essentially constitutes a physical barrier or shelter against…