Location: Greece
Yiannis Galanakis studied at the Physics Department of
the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Since 2012, his artistic focus has shifted into the
realm of digital photo editing and compositing, adding a new dimension to his
creative endeavors.
His photographic work has been presented in a variety
of contexts, including group and solo art exhibitions, as well as recognized
international competitions and festivals, with awards and publications in
international art magazines.
EXHIBITIONS
-7th Chania International Photo Festival,
Group Exhibition
2023
-Publication in Art IDEAL
Magazine v.3
-6th Chania International Photo Festival
(Cip Festival), Group Exhibition
-Among the winners in Artavita's 2022
ARTIST OF THE YEAR competition.
2022 -Finalist in Artavita
online contest, July 2022
-5th Chania International Photo Festival
(Cip Festival), Group Exhibition
2021 4th Chania
International Photo Festival
(Cip Festival), Group Exhibition
2015 “Itinerant Images”,
S.G Art Gallery, Lycabettus,
Athens, Solo Exhibition
2014 “Castles in the air”,
Mare Gallery, Chania, Group
Exhibition
2002 “Chania Creators”,
Municipal Art Gallery of Chania,
Group Exhibition
2002 “The ego is another, the ego as a stake”,
Villa
Koundourou, Chania, Solo Exhibition
The works in this section, part of an ongoing project, present aspects of an intriguing, imaginary, or at least "disturbed" reality that converses with the irrational, the intuitive, or the subconscious.
As memory changes events, with the help and confidence to the random and the subconscious, these works reconstitute memories into a new reality that transcends them.
Through the elaboration and shaping of the composition of these images, experiences, feelings, moods or qualities are transcribed and opened to possibilities of worlds that, while they have not completely "lost" their references, seem mutated and strange at the same time.
I am interested in this dual function of the image: its contradiction to maintain established relations in forms, words or meanings and at the same time to deconstruct them, leading us to the wonderful swing between a "we are some others here" and a "we are ourselves in a multifaceted elsewhere".
My goal is to cause an emotional vibration in the viewer where its roots are nourished by the soil of the sensible and the conceivable inseparably.
(All works are digitally edited compositions from my photos with sufficient resolution for exposure in dimensions up to 60HX90W cm.)
Photograph and digital image composite
Photograph and digital image composite
Photograph and digital image composite
Photograph and digital image composite
Photograph and digital image composite
Photograph and digital image composite