Between Athens and Leros, after studies in photography that also touched on Bologna, Alexis Vasilikos makes shots that have in their calm a meditative power for the artist.
Vasilikos’ photos revolve around spiritual experiences and appear in many cases as abstract compositions, or in others they visually represent metaphors and concepts from peripatetic philosophy, the philosophy associated with Greece and the birth of Western culture.
Alexis Vasilikos brings back to his works that idea of slow life that seems to live in the provinces or only in summer, with the subjects standing motionless in the sun meditating toward points lost in nothingness. The black and white that unifies many of Alexis’ works fosters this suspension of time and the sense of not wanting to define the landscape, a mechanism broken at times by the insertion of chromatic spikes or objects that seem to live by surprise among rocks and asphalt.
The shots are an ongoing attempt to break the expectation, but not with eccentricity, rather with subjects that placed in the foreground suggest to the viewer the need to meditate, to go deep with respect to something they do not yet know.