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| Chryse Tsiota The work of Chryse Tsiota is characterized by her play with a constantly unstable identity. It portrays a hermaphrodite model’s search for an identity - sometimes - that is in some or other way inscribed on this urban environment that bears witness to the crisis of urban culture and civilisation. An urban environment that describes the crisis of the city, of the social fabric, instead of that of the portrait itself. By using herself in multiple reproductions, she at times intimates that very fragile family happiness, at other times social happiness, as well as all those roles in which a hermaphrodite woman is called on to wonder about the archaic fears of the duplicate, triplicate, the Other and the Self. Boltanski is undoubtedly the first to have brought up the mythology of the family model, while Sindy Shermanthrough movie stereotypes-did not for a single second stop deconstructing her identity. Through true or false stories, and through months of working on photomontage, Chryse Tsiota checks-with a unique and accomplished perfection-the illusion of perfection. She retrieves and theatrically underlines all those powers and anti-powers that form the fabric of an “objective” freedom that is symbolised by the possession of the object itself. Her photographs from the 90s reveal the pain, violence, imposition and absence of an ideological culture that gives its place to the culture of the masses, of the spectacle and of homogenised consumption. Dorothea Konteletzidou  Download CV |  Baubo, 2009 |
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