PREPARING FOR THE BEACH

2015 – 2020

Preparing for the Beach reflects on time, age and vanity; intertwining fading memories of family and youth with accounts from their everyday life in Athens, Greece.

Preparing for the Beach is a photographic peek into a world inhabited by female pensioners who each attend Day Care Centres for Senior Citizens (ΚΑΠΗ) or Friendship Clubs. These clubs are scattered across the city and offer senior citizen gymnastics and self-defence classes taught by retired male top athletes.

Preparing for the Beach merges memories, fiction and documentary into a Memento Mori about life’s volatility; about time going by, while physical actions repeat themselves along with memories in order to keep on going.

Solo Exhibistion

Benaki Museum (GR) 2020.

 

 

PIREOS 138 - Poster

138 Pireos & Andronikou St.

GR - Athens

Catalogue 2020

 

 

88 pages. 19×29,7 cm.

Offset Print. Ed. 300

 

ISBN: 978-87-995111-1-2

G.Kostopoulos Printing House SA

 

Supported by The New Carlsberg Foundation

PREPARING FOR THE BEACH

Interview by:

Kasper Daugaard Poulsen 2019

 

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