FRAGILE: Ioanna Manoussaki & Erato Tzavara

Monday, 12 September 2011

Ioanna Manoussaki & Erato Tzavara

Selected works from the Series : Access Granted

"Access Granted" is a series of photographs that emerged from a collaborative media project undertaken by Ioanna Manoussaki and Erato Tzavara in April 2011. The two London-based artists visited Senegal in the context of volunteering for the local charity NGO 10.000 girls, which supports young women in accessing education, developing entrepreneurial activities and promoting environmental awareness. During their sojourn, they captured social spaces and casual encounters with the sensitivity created in each moment, based on the people's impartial desire for the lens and the mutual curiosity for interaction and contact. The photographs emit the different levels of intimacy developed between the artist, the subject and exchange of gazes. The residues of these brief triangle encounters are images rich in texture, colour and emotion.

B-prints (23.4 x 16.5 in)