About

Orestis Ilias is a visual artist, based in Athens, working with photography, painting, graphics and video, with which creates abstract, minimal, applied and decorative artworks.

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Artworks, among other things, show how he sees the outside world, connecting his inwardness to the external movement driven by his feelings of self and embodied experience.

His conceptual artworks are basically influenced by social and humanistic stimuli. He deals with social issues such as oppression, discrimination, freedom and climate change. The basic perception that permeates the majority of his projects is the concept of collective memory.

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People’s stories can be the sum of social events that happens in space, while the history “line” passes, and they are expanding through infinity of time together with the social environment’s changes. The medium of photography reports and captures moments from that movement, so it has a special ability to operate as a link between individual and collective memory.