Lizzie Calligas
Dark Waters – Eleusina, 1994-2013
Photographs, drawings and prints are the outcome of Calligas’ first encounter with the Eleusinian area, during the creation of Iera Odos (Sacred Way), in 1994. Her Swimmers is an ongoing project, that started from a small bay in Eleusina at that time, and denotes that Eleusina has been a place of constant inspiration throughout her career as an artist.
“Dark Waters simultaneously concerns the process of art production, its raison d’être, the very material on which it is captured and through which it emerges. The title, moreover, conveys an almost symmetrical correspondence with its point of reference, Elefsina, as a medium in which images, faces, experiences, memories, concerns, trajectories, and revisits are submerged, and from which they emerge, in alternation, spanning an indeterminate scope of time that encompasses our childhood, modern history and ancient myth, harking back to the distant origins of human existence”.
Denys Zacharopoulos
Artistic Director of Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
The book was published on the occasion of Lizzie Calligas' exhibition Dark Waters at the L. Kanellopoulos Cultural Center, presented in September 2013, in the context of the City of Eleusina Aeschylia Festival.
Cube Art Editions have also published Lizzie Calligas’s following books:
At the Xenia Hotel in Andros 2001-2012, 2012
Metoikesis, 2010
Sea Pastels, 2008
Swimmers, 2007
23rd Biennale of Alexandria, 2005 (Lizzie Calligas – Nikos Alexiou)
Mosaics, 2002
Exhibition Catalogues