Maria Mavropoulou was born in 1989 and she lives and works in Athens, Greece. She completed her MFA studies in 2018, at Athens School of Fine Arts, from where she got her BA in 2014. She has studied painting and sculpture, although her main medium is photography while her work expands to new forms and uses of the photographic image, such as VR. The resulting images are at the boundary line between plausibility or not, potentiality and non-potentiality, random and constructed.
Playing with the perception of viewers she aspires to question the role and power of photography in an era that is dominated by it. Her work has been presented in numerous exhibitions in Greece and abroad and publicized in multiple magazines.
About ‘Liquid Identity’ – words by Maria Mavropoulou:
These images that refer directly to passport photographs operate in a completely contradictory way. Rather than reveal the identity of the sitter they hide it. The individual is lost as a unit and the image that remains represents a ” type of person.” A liquid identity that encompasses innumerable people with similar physical characteristics is created and allows the viewer to recognize familiar faces or identify with these images, while asked to consider the concept of his own uniqueness.
In times of such social, economical and ethical turmoil like the ones we live through currently, I feel that this work could make a comment about how important it is to realize all that unite us as humans rather than what divides us. No matter the social distinctions of any kind, no matter our physical diversity, we all have common needs, we all should have the same rights and we all deserve to be treated equally.
