PHOTO:Stratos Kalafatis ,Athos-The Colours Of Faith

Photographs from Stratos Kalafatis’ series “Athos-the Colours of Faith” that focuses at the Mount Athos, a monastic community revered by Orthodox Christians as the “Holy Mountain” are on presentation at Galerie Intervalle in Paris. The series is a different approach to a world we are accustomed to being revealed to us through the printed or photographic material in a way that is much more pompous, eerie and conservative. Kalafatis’s project took 25 visits to Mount Athos in a period over 5 years and selected the square format to give his version of the landscape and the people in this particular area. The artist through his photographs, creates a new mythology and a staple of images also he plays with different dimensions of photos. Something that doesn’t make the visit of the exhibition difficult, but contrary creates to the viewer a sense of intimacy and closeness, the balance of the out of reach–dematerialized changes, but without losing any of their spirituality, thus they become more tangible, palpable and robust. The photographer, through his works, presents to us: landscapes, faces, spaces and rituals, in an incredibly contemporary way, terrifically human and absolutely poetic. It is one of the most beautiful exhibitions in Paris and really worth visiting! -Efi Michalarou

Info: Galerie Intervalle, rue Jouye Rouve 12, Paris, Duration: 7/9-27/10/18, Days & Hours: Fri-Sat 11:00-19:00, www.galerie-intervalle.com