Greece
Maria Mavropoulou:
IMAGINED IMAGES
At first glance, this series resembles decades-old family photographs. But a closer look reveals something unsettling: faces and bodies are strangely distorted. These are not traditional photographs but images generated by processing family snapshots through AI, which reconfigures their forms and colors.In a world where images can be produced not only by cameras and scanners but also by algorithms, the power dynamics of photographing and being photographed—and the boundary between fiction and truth—have become blurred. Yet many viewers may still feel nostalgia or empathy for these works, which merge countless, unspecified memories into one. What emerges is a shared sensibility: the deep emotional pull of family, memory, and belonging.
At first glance, this series resembles decades-old family photographs. But a closer look reveals something unsettling: faces and bodies are strangely distorted. These are not traditional photographs but images generated by processing family snapshots through AI, which reconfigures their forms and colors.In a world where images can be produced not only by cameras and scanners but also by algorithms, the power dynamics of photographing and being photographed—and the boundary between fiction and truth—have become blurred. Yet many viewers may still feel nostalgia or empathy for these works, which merge countless, unspecified memories into one. What emerges is a shared sensibility: the deep emotional pull of family, memory, and belonging.
At first glance, this series resembles decades-old family photographs. But a closer look reveals something unsettling: faces and bodies are strangely distorted. These are not traditional photographs but images generated by processing family snapshots through AI, which reconfigures their forms and colors.In a world where images can be produced not only by cameras and scanners but also by algorithms, the power dynamics of photographing and being photographed—and the boundary between fiction and truth—have become blurred. Yet many viewers may still feel nostalgia or empathy for these works, which merge countless, unspecified memories into one. What emerges is a shared sensibility: the deep emotional pull of family, memory, and belonging.
Maria Mavropoulou was born in 1989, she lives and works in Athens, Greece. She is a visual artist using mainly photography while her work expands to new forms of photographic images, such as VR and screen-captured images, GAN and AI-generated images. Her work and research focus on the new realities created by the connectible devices and the contradictions between the physical and the virtual spaces that we inhabit, addressing issues of technological mediation. By using the most novel technology available to her, she creates work that reflects on the new ways images are produced today. Her work explores digital identity and representation in the post-social media era, algorithmic bias, network culture, power politics between machines and humans, and the multidimensionality of our experiences in our always-online world. Her recent projects correlate AI with the mystical, divine and magical, as well as reflect on the future of photography amidst the advances of synthetic images.
Maria holds a Master’s in Fine Arts and a BA from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her work is presented at König Gallery in Berlin and is part of private collections and Vontobel art collection. She has exhibited in institutions and museums in Greece and abroad among which are Images Vevey festival (Switzerland 2024) FOAM Amsterdam (2024), the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Greece- EMST (2023), MAST Foundation (Italy 2023) Sharjah Foundation (United Arab Emirates 2022), Foto Colectania, (Spain 2022), Tallinn Art Hall, (Estonia 2021), Miami Art week, (2020), 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival(2019), Thessaloniki Museum of Photography(2019), Onassis cultural center (2019), Athens Conservatoire(2019), Slought Foundation (Philadelphia, USA 2019), Maison de la Photographie, (France 2018), Benaki museum(2018), Unseen Amsterdam, (Netherlands 2018) National Observatory of Athens (2018), Culturescapes festival (Basel, Switzerland, 2017) Athens Photo Festival (2016), Athens Biennale (2015) Mois de la photo,(Paris, France, 2014). Her first VR project Family Portraits has been awarded at the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (2019), and she has also been selected among 30 Under 30 Women Photographers (2018) and a Young Greek Photographer by Athens Photo Festival (2016)
Maria Mavropoulou also works as a contributing photographer for the New York Times covering topics about tech.
Maria Mavropoulou was born in 1989, she lives and works in Athens, Greece. She is a visual artist using mainly photography while her work expands to new forms of photographic images, such as VR and screen-captured images, GAN and AI-generated images. Her work and research focus on the new realities created by the connectible devices and the contradictions between the physical and the virtual spaces that we inhabit, addressing issues of technological mediation. By using the most novel technology available to her, she creates work that reflects on the new ways images are produced today. Her work explores digital identity and representation in the post-social media era, algorithmic bias, network culture, power politics between machines and humans, and the multidimensionality of our experiences in our always-online world. Her recent projects correlate AI with the mystical, divine and magical, as well as reflect on the future of photography amidst the advances of synthetic images.
Maria holds a Master’s in Fine Arts and a BA from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her work is presented at König Gallery in Berlin and is part of private collections and Vontobel art collection. She has exhibited in institutions and museums in Greece and abroad among which are Images Vevey festival (Switzerland 2024) FOAM Amsterdam (2024), the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Greece- EMST (2023), MAST Foundation (Italy 2023) Sharjah Foundation (United Arab Emirates 2022), Foto Colectania, (Spain 2022), Tallinn Art Hall, (Estonia 2021), Miami Art week, (2020), 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival(2019), Thessaloniki Museum of Photography(2019), Onassis cultural center (2019), Athens Conservatoire(2019), Slought Foundation (Philadelphia, USA 2019), Maison de la Photographie, (France 2018), Benaki museum(2018), Unseen Amsterdam, (Netherlands 2018) National Observatory of Athens (2018), Culturescapes festival (Basel, Switzerland, 2017) Athens Photo Festival (2016), Athens Biennale (2015) Mois de la photo,(Paris, France, 2014). Her first VR project Family Portraits has been awarded at the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (2019), and she has also been selected among 30 Under 30 Women Photographers (2018) and a Young Greek Photographer by Athens Photo Festival (2016)
Maria Mavropoulou also works as a contributing photographer for the New York Times covering topics about tech.
Maria Mavropoulou was born in 1989, she lives and works in Athens, Greece. She is a visual artist using mainly photography while her work expands to new forms of photographic images, such as VR and screen-captured images, GAN and AI-generated images. Her work and research focus on the new realities created by the connectible devices and the contradictions between the physical and the virtual spaces that we inhabit, addressing issues of technological mediation. By using the most novel technology available to her, she creates work that reflects on the new ways images are produced today. Her work explores digital identity and representation in the post-social media era, algorithmic bias, network culture, power politics between machines and humans, and the multidimensionality of our experiences in our always-online world. Her recent projects correlate AI with the mystical, divine and magical, as well as reflect on the future of photography amidst the advances of synthetic images.
Maria holds a Master’s in Fine Arts and a BA from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her work is presented at König Gallery in Berlin and is part of private collections and Vontobel art collection. She has exhibited in institutions and museums in Greece and abroad among which are Images Vevey festival (Switzerland 2024) FOAM Amsterdam (2024), the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Greece- EMST (2023), MAST Foundation (Italy 2023) Sharjah Foundation (United Arab Emirates 2022), Foto Colectania, (Spain 2022), Tallinn Art Hall, (Estonia 2021), Miami Art week, (2020), 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival(2019), Thessaloniki Museum of Photography(2019), Onassis cultural center (2019), Athens Conservatoire(2019), Slought Foundation (Philadelphia, USA 2019), Maison de la Photographie, (France 2018), Benaki museum(2018), Unseen Amsterdam, (Netherlands 2018) National Observatory of Athens (2018), Culturescapes festival (Basel, Switzerland, 2017) Athens Photo Festival (2016), Athens Biennale (2015) Mois de la photo,(Paris, France, 2014). Her first VR project Family Portraits has been awarded at the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (2019), and she has also been selected among 30 Under 30 Women Photographers (2018) and a Young Greek Photographer by Athens Photo Festival (2016)
Maria Mavropoulou also works as a contributing photographer for the New York Times covering topics about tech.
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