Petros Efstathiadis (b. 1980, Greece) lives and works in Greece. He received his BA in photography at University for the Creative Arts, UCA Farnham Surrey, UK. Efstathiadis’ primary medium is photography, yet his practice is grounded in the physical materiality of everyday consumer detritus and in sculptural gesture. Efstathiadis’s main oeuvre is comprised of photographs of assemblage sculptures and installations constructed from found objects around the artist’s hometown of Liparo. At the core of Efstathiadis’s work is an exploration of the meanings and the powers that manufactured objects can wield and signify, as if imbued with an agency of their own. In his usual practice, once a perfect shot is taken, the artist disassembles the sculptures again, returning all of their constituent materials to where they were originally procured.
Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Gold Rush’, ARSENAL, Met; ‘Invisible Limits/Makeshift Structures’, Thessaloniki Photo Biennale, Thessaloniki; ‘Gold Rush’, CAN Christina Androulidaki gallery, Athens and Galerie Sintitulo, Mougins; and Galerie Clementine de la Feronniere, Paris and Foto Forum Galerie, Bolzano; ‘Invisible Limits/Makeshift Structures’, Sofia; 29é Festival International de Mode & Photographie d’ Hyéres, Hyéres. Selected group exhibitions include: Foto Wien, Vienna; 28é and 29é Festival International de Mode & Photographie d’Hyéres, Hyéres; ‘Realities and Plausibilities’, Xippas Gallery, Athens. Museum and institutional shows include: ‘Ueber Leben am Land’, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna; ‘The Ground We Have In Common’, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso; ‘The Presence of Absence, or the Catastrophe Theory’, NiMac, Nicosia; ‘Invisible Cities’, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York,; ‘Mr Robinson Crusoe Stayed Home: Adventures of Design in Times Of Crisis’, Benaki Museum, Athens; ‘Equilibrists’, curated by NEW Museum, Benaki Museum, Athens; ‘Capitalist Realism’, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; ‘The end of Medea’ Stavros Niarchos foundation Cultural Center, Athens; ‘The Presence of Absence, or the Catastrophe Theory’ in Izolyatsia Foundation, Kiev; ‘Touching from Distance’, Serlachius Museum, Mänttä. Awards include: First prize of HSBC in Photography Prize; Grand prize of Hyères International Fashion & Photography Festival and, shortlisted for the Prix PICTET 2016. Major Collections include: Israel Museum, Jerusalem; MoMUS Museum, Thessaloniki; HSBC Corporate Art Collection, Paris; Serlachius Museum, Mänttä and Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens.