Anthoula Lelekidis was born and raised in Queens, New York. As a first-generation Greek-American, she considers both New York and Greece her home. She has graduated with a BFA in Photography from Parsons the New School for Design. She received the Community Fellowship from the International Center of Photography and was a resident at the Skopelos Foundation of the Arts. In 2008, she earned a scholarship from the Students On Ice Organization to travel to photograph Antarctica. Her work integrates both photography, printmaking and mixed media, with a focus on themes of memory and personal history.
Anthoula Lelekidis: At The Foothills of Mount Olympus
Fragments of Diaspora centers around themes of identity, migration, and the desire to uncover one’s roots. The lives of diaspora are filled with a deep yearning for home, and the need to create a life away from it. By combining fragments of my own photographs together with family photographs, reassembling and reworking them, I construct new images that bridge the gap between time periods and suggest the conflict and consequences involved in relocation. My process includes research and editing in the assembly of images, then an intuitive response that includes tearing apart prints and re-combining them in unexpected ways. These physical rips are a metaphor for the splitting of families who fled from their homeland due to war or poverty. The images depict symbols of cultural traditions and family bonds, while the process of collage suggests feelings of displacement and isolation.
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