Astrid Kaminski
ΠΕΤΡΙΝΗ ΑΦΗΓΗΣΗ
Photography
Exhibition, May 16-30, 2025
Μορφωτικός κοινωνικός συλλογος Πλάκα


Oceans and humans have many things in common, one of which is that they shape their environment. They are sculptors of the world. Or rather, of the Earth. Even better, of the Earth's crust. They shape landscapes according to their ideas. The sea forms the edges – the coasts of islands and continents. Humans continue the work inland – or they deface it, even to the point of complete destruction. In "ΠΕΤΡΙΝΗ ΑΦΗΓΗΣΗ, Nature Morte," author and artist Astrid Kaminski experiments with rock formations at the shores of three seas: the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, and the Mediterranean. Through imitation, visual rhymes, and associations, a system of reference emerges between human and maritime aesthetics, between human and maritime (imaginative) power, and also between life and death. Stones become images and sculptures, bodies petrify into statues or the stories they recall or repress.

Astrid Kaminski is a Berlin and Athens based writer and artist who frequently has come to Milos for at least a decade.

Astrid Kaminski
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www.astridkaminski.com