Biographie
Olga Stefatou has travelled around the globe, and in Asia in particular; she produced photographic and multimedia projects on social and humanitarian questions. She studied photography at Athens Institute and completed her Masters Degree in Multimedia Journalism in 2012 at the University of Bolton (based in Beijing, China). Her work has been published in Der Spiegel, Amnesty International, National Geographic, NBC News, Le Monde Diplomatique, the Huffington Post, and l'Economiste - amongst others. Recently, she took part in the "Solar Impulse" project.
She received in 2016 the prize Phot' Oeil and is represented by the gallery Negpos in Nîmes. She is also a member of the Greek artistic collective "Depression Era".
Présentation
Let us take a trip to the island of Cephalonia, where Olga is originally from. Her relationship with her motherland cannot be shrunk down to nostalgia, or even melancholy. It is also of a history of isolation - of an affective stranglehold. To go and to come back again is to look at the intolerable and at the unalienable in the face, to try to comprehend what is both close and unfathomable. Ultimately, the series is not about time or territory; it weaves around the place's idiosyncrasies and the follies that belong only there, it is intertwined with the phantoms, either gentle or stern, that have been created collectively and that some have had to leave behind.