ILIOS (towards your red light)

Alexander Papadopoulos

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ILIOS (towards your red light) is a book made by Alexander Papadopoulos, an italian-greek photographer.

It speaks of a metamorphosis, a slow passage from shadow to light, an endogenous and exogenous path, from love to obsession with the sun, towards an attempt to analyze the impermanence of memories, of grafts, joints between bodies, towers, maternal warmth and the distorted, mythicized, desired figure of Flavia.

A sick need to retain and distil an experience as simple as love, to then end up with the creation of an essence that goes outside of its original form, no longer true, so idealized that it loses its point of origin, dirty with nature, which allows its variety and its survival. It therefore led to an interlocking between our need to sediment these images and create a layer where life rather than death could permeate. How to look the sun straight in the eye and then give its colors to the rest of the world. Following this astronomical phenomenon called redshift, that of approaching a source of heat, towards a star, while the temperature of her light changes, warming me and warming her.

First edition in 100 numbered and signed copies

10.5x14 cm - 152 pages

Munken Print White 70 g/m2

Delicate handmade cover with rice fiber paper 240 g/m2

Japanese binding with red thread

Editing and design by Chochana Rosso

Digital printing by Escourbiac

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Country — France

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About — Chochana Rosso is a french guadeloupean photographer, member of the agency ERGON based in Berlin. She graduated in graphic design at the Higher Institute of Applied Arts (Paris), with a specialization in publishing. Chochana Rosso invests herself in the practice of photography since 2018. During the lockdowns, she learned how to develop films and experimented with photographic print processes from a home-built darkroom.

In 2021, her work Aphrodite is selected to be a part of FRESH EYES third annual publication which reunites 150 emerging artists from around Europe. Shortly after, she self published her first book, Aphrodite which is a combination of photographic experimentations on her body, her sexuality and more particularly her place as a woman in society.

In May 2023, Nicola Patruno, creator of JERGON, curated the exhibition "rebis", which reunitated Eleonora Sabet and Chochana Rosso's works. In addition to older series such as Aphrodite and S*x diary, she showed recent original pieces of her project Autoportrait de disparition which talks about grief and the loss of her family house. The two artists collaborated on a unique piece for the show called L'ombre de ton absence/Nothing could end this love which combined both identities.

Through obsessive and compulsive shooting, she reflects on absence, spirituality, abandonment and emotional distress. Usually materialized with development errors, imperfect prints with stains of emulsions and the use of alternative treatments.

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