Artist Statement
The process of growing up can be a period of ambiguity and uncertainty. Polixeni Papapetrou creates a visual unreality that parallels this liminal period of young lives. While her work takes the viewer into the realms of fantasy and story telling, she also challenges expectations regarding the portrayal of childhood in photography. in making photographs about her children and their friends in their various roles and guises, acting and performing, she traces a journey of exploration connecting myth, great works of fiction and her own personal experience. And so the photographs have a dual presence, both as a story and as a real action, performed by the children with their own moods and feelings.
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