Photography for me is a flirtatious play with the real. I am interested in exploring the relation between ideas of exteriority and interiority and how these can be challenged through the medium of Photography.
The work shown here entitled ‘’The Potential Space ‘’ forms a part of my doctoral research and has been the subject of my MPhil upgrade exhibition. My research examines the relationship of the abstract, empty, minimal space of photography to the inner world. Ideas of abstraction, emptiness, flatness, monochrome, dissolution of space, as well as the notions of boundaries, obstacles and thresholds are key points of concern, which I am questioning and exploring within my practice.
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Eva Kalpadaki, born Ano Archanes, Crete, Greece 1974. Eva studied Physics at the University of Patras but her artistic concerns led her to gain a BA diploma in Photography from the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens. In 2003, Eva was awarded a Greek State Foundation scholarship to undertake doctoral research in Photography. She is currently completing her PhD at the University College for the Creative Arts at Maidstone, UK.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally in group shows: “ Patras, a town in 13 stories”, National Bank, Patras 1998 and Photographic Center of Thessaloniki 1999, “New Glance” at 8 West, Athens 2001, “New Color”, at Athens Photographic Center 2001, ‘’LOOKOUT’’- Athens First Aesthetic Public Intervention of Unpredictable Size 2003, “Fotoebnefsi”, at the Hellenic Centre of London 2005, as well as in solo shows: ‘’Archanes- Light”, Ano Archanes, Crete 2000, “Internal Reflections”, Photosynkyria 2003 in Thessaloniki, “Internal Reflections”, Ano Archanes, Crete 2003, “The Potential Space”, Mphil Upgrade Exhibition at the George Roger Gallery at the University College for the Creative Arts, Maidstone, UK 2004.
Her work has been published in exhibition catalogues as well as in various photographic websites. She has been collaborating with the ‘’IML’’ Image Group since 2002 and she has also lectured and presented her work at BA and MA courses as a teaching assistant. Part of her work is being held by the Developmental Heraklion Company Ltd in Ano Archanes, Crete, Greece.
