A house’s interior is usually structured on the base of personal taste, of the current or a former tenant, in order to serve a condition of functionality, stability, security. In this staged self-portrait Vassilis Constantinou focuses through such an environment somewhere vaguely outside the curtain, as an observer on the line of an existent as well as psychological limit. How defensive can we become safeguarding the limit between the inside and the outside? How available are we to feel what is going on outside the closed circle, outside tradition, outside the frame, outside the constructed Cavafian “walls”? To what extent have we finally ignored the capability of photography, that seems destined to serve the faithful representation of the real, to outline also internal transition, turbulence and doubt?
[Vassilis Constantinou, Untitled, 2015, From the series "Family Frames", MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography]