Brighton Photo Biennial 2018 Instagram Takeover: Aikaterini Gegisian

Aikaterini Gegisian is an artist of Greek-Armenian heritage that lives and works between the UK and Greece.

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Building on her contribution to the Armenian Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale (2015 Golden Lion for best national participation), Aikaterini Gegisian has over the past two years developed a series of new commissions exploring the role of images in the construction of national and gendered identities, for among others: Jewish Museum, Moscow; National Arts Museum of China, Beijing; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art; BALTIC, Newcastle; Calvert 22 Foundation, London; Kunsthalle Osnabruck; DEPO, Istanbul; Yermilov Centre, Ukraine.

 

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Disturbing the narrative of the Brotherhood of men by casting a female gaze and interrogating the representation of women in postwar times. Film still from Third Person (Plural). Prelude: Brotherhood showing at BRIGHTON PHOTO BIENALLE #aneweurope #bpb18 #photoworks_uk #aikaterinigegisian #instagramtakeover #photography #archivematerial #newsreels #collage #thirdpersonplural #brotherhood #propaganda #propagandafilms #woman #measurement #dresssize #size #fashion

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Interrogating the production of masculinity, film still from Third Person (Plural). Prelude: Brotherhood showing at BRIGHTON PHOTO BIENALLE #aneweurope #bpb18 #photoworks_uk #aikaterinigegisian #instagramtakeover #photography #archivematerial #newsreels #collage #thirdpersonplural #brotherhood #propaganda #propagandafilms #darts #endurance #pain

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Of the incredible documentary material unearthed from American postwar newsreels is a song from a musical theatre production from 1951 that critiques the construction of racism. Extract from Third Person (Plural). Prelude: Brotherhood showing at BRIGHTON PHOTO BIENALLE #aneweurope #bpb18 #photoworks_uk #aikaterinigegisian #instagramtakeover #photography #archivematerial #newsreels #collage #thirdpersonplural #brotherhood #propaganda #propagandafilms

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Sunny bright good morning as I take over @photoworks_uk instagram for the week. Film still from my video collage Third Person (Plural).Prelude: Brotherhood on show at Brighton Photo Biennale #bpb18 #photoworks_uk #aikaterinigegisian #instagramtakeover #photography #archivematerial #newsreels #collage #thirdpersonplural #brotherhood #propaganda #propagandafilms #star

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During 2018, she is a Research Fellow at the Library of Congress, Washington DC and at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, developing a new essay film exploring the ‘image’ of Europe based on post WW2 USA newsreels.

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For more of Aikaterini’s work, visit her website here.