The festival’s main exhibition, organized by the Department of Audio & Visual Arts in collaboration with the ERHMEE Laboratory of the Department of Music Studies at the Ionian University, presents the work of distinguished artist and photographer Christina Dimitriadis at the Municipal Gallery of Central Corfu & Diapontia Islands.
The exhibition brings together works from three photographic series: Island Hoping (2015–2018), Horizon Wanderers (2021–2023), and J’ai perdu mon Eurydice (2021–2025). A unifying thread across these bodies of work is the artist’s focus on the temporalities of matter, relating both to the deep geological time of the earth and to human activity. Dimitriadis creates “portraits of matter” by photographing rocky islets, quarries, and constructed ships.
In Island Hoping, barren yet geopolitically significant rocky islands of the Aegean dominate the images as resilient geological formations. In Horizon Wanderers, ships—before and after their construction and use—function as symbols of exploration as well as of human dominance over nature. In J’ai perdu mon Eurydice, the depiction of an ancient quarry and an ancient theatre reveals the trajectories of marble, linking materiality with cultural memory and the exploitation of natural resources.
Dimitriadis’ work engages with complex social, political, and historical questions, approaching matter as a carrier of memory and transformation. Focusing on extraction landscapes, rocks, and human-made structures, the artist simultaneously documents and creates (counter-)monuments of the relationship between humans and the environment.
The exhibition will be accessible to visitors with visual impairments through recorded audio descriptions.
Christina Dimitriadis is an artist and photographer. She is a graduate of the New School of Social Research - Parsons School of Design in New York. Since 1993 she has lived and worked in Berlin. Dimitriadis' works have been hosted in important art centers and art institutions, such as the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin, the MEP La Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the Istanbul Modern, the Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul, the mumok Museum Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna, the EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, the MOMus, Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki, the Athens Center for the Arts, the C.R.A.C. Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain Languedoc Roussilon in Sète, the Auckland Triennial, the Istanbul Biennale, the Moscow Photo Biennale, the Thessaloniki Biennale and the Thessaloniki Photography Biennale.
Christina Dimitriadis will present her work as a keynote speaker at the 8th Interdisciplinary Conference “Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges”, to be held on Friday, May 8, at 12:15, at the Ionian Academy. (Open to the public)
Exhibition curated by: Daphne Dragona, Lecturer, Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University
Audio Description (creation & editing): Maria Petasi & Vilelmini Sosoni, STraLaT Laboratory, Department of Foreign Languages, Translation & Interpreting, Ionian University, Emmanouel Rovithis, epOAsi Laboratory, Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University
Braille Transcription: Ismini Karantzi, Audio Describer, Postdoctoral Candidate in Audio Description; Marina Triantafyllidi, Philologist, President of the Audit Committee of the Regional Union of the Blind of Western Greece; Fani Tsikoura, Educator, Organizing Secretary of the Panthessalian Association of Disabled Citizens of Larissa.
Artistic Director of the 19th Audiovisual Arts Festival: Emmanouel Rovithis, epOAsi Laboratory, Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University
Opening: Thursday, May 7, 2026, 20:00
Contact: +30 26610 48690 | pinakcrf1@gmail.com
Works by Christina Dimitriadis are presented courtesy of Eleni Koroneou Gallery.
Featured work:
“J’AI PERDU MON EURYDICE”
Marble Quarry IΙ, color photograph, digital inkjet print, Fournoi Korseon, 2021–2024
© Christina Dimitriadis & VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Courtesy of Eleni Koroneou Gallery
