EIGHT GALLERY, ATHENS, GREECE, 3-6 JUNE 2021​

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Nudity is the beginning. The base. The truth. Nudity does not pretend. The way you choose to see it says something about yourself, not about the nude.

 

George Striftaris' first tools come from his experience as an actor and casting director. It is this experience, imbued with his love for painting, that guides and defines his photographic art. Dedicated, simple, relentless, he manages to encapsulate in his images those dimensions of reality that we miss.

 

The male body unfolds its qualities. The morning light glorifies it. The industrial spaces make it tender and vulnerable. Nature awakens his playfulness. 

 

Each of his photographs is a scene of a larger narrative. You can't take your eyes off it. You stay there to watch the story unfold. 

 

George Striftaris strips the male body of everything that prevents it from telling you this story, presents a world of his own and opens Dialogues with his audience.

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George Striftaris’ photographic activity began with street photography, landscapes and portraits, and in recent years he has been working with male nudity, sometimes incorporating it into the natural, sometimes into the urban landscape and sometimes into the invented spaces of an in-between, unexplored zone. He was a key contributor to "Screw" magazine and soon after a member of the editorial team of FAGAZINE magazine. In these magazines he undertook the images for the covers, the main interviews and some permanent columns. He also created images for the covers of theatrical texts, posters and promotional material for theatre productions - some of which he participated in - and posters for short films.

 

He has already exhibited his work in several solo and group exhibitions in Greece and Europe. One of the milestones in his career was the publication of his first photographic album entitled PHOSPHORUS on the occasion of his solo exhibition ANDRES UNDRESS in Brussels. Interviews and presentations of his work can be found in the electronic and printed press in Greece, Europe, America and Australia. His works are in private collections in Greece and abroad.

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