Evangelia Kranioti's work deals with the endless human journey, with the sea and maritime voyages as her great inspiration. Venturing into the Mediterranean to Italy or the Atlantic through the docks of Rio de Janeiro, she is constantly searching for dignity and humanity, seeking tangible traces of beauty in this world. In doing so, she often finds herself in borderline situations, in zones where others might feel personal and social discomfort; tension feeds her lens, and the result is a series of unvarnished testimonies about human weakness, where vulnerability is the common attribute, courage is viewed as a currency and desire becomes the equalizer.

Biography

Evangelia Kranioti is an Athens-born visual artist living in Paris. She completed her studies at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs with a post-graduate course in editorial design. The recipient of many scholarships and awards, she has been creating work as an artist-in-residence in various institutions (Fondation Marc de Montalambert / Fondation de France, Mediterranean Center of Photography, Cité internationale des Arts de Paris, Capacete / Maison de France Rio de Janeiro, amongst others). For the past few years, her work has evolved around photography and writing and film, beyond aesthetic boundaries, and as she draws on fleeting moments in her surveys of human weaknesses and obsessions, she often questions the very nature of desire.