PREPARING FOR THE BEACH

2015 – 2020

Photographic Works

Installation Views

Transciptions of Dialogues

Interview

Press

Catalogue

Intro – video

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 dealing with life’s volatility; Repeating physical actions alongside reliving memories in order to endure the passing of time.

PREPARING FOR THE BEACH

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PREPARING FOR THE BEACH

Intro – video 2021

PREPARING FOR THE BEACH

Interview by:

Kasper Daugaard Poulsen 2019

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BENAKI MUSEUM

PIREOS 138 - Poster

138 Pireos & Andronikou St.

GR - Athens

PRESS

2020

KATHEMIRINI:

Μητέρες, κόρες, γιαγιάδες 

( Mothers, daughter, grandmothers )

CNN GREECE:

« Η τρίτη ηλικία σε κίνηση » 

( The third age on the move )

ATHINA 9.84:

“A secret Look at the World of Retired Women”

PREPARING FOR THE BEACH

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