SAKELLARAKI Ioanna

The Truth is in the Soil

Greece

2020

Inspired by the laments of ancient Greece, Ioanna Sakellaraki has lived among the last traditional mourner communities on the Mani Peninsula to capture traces of mourning and grief. Her project “The Truth is in the Soil” is the result of a personal reflection on the impossibility to mourn her father and her construction of it in her culture and in her family. By relating her personal experience to the mourners’ dramatic performance, she examines the spiritual subjectivity of Greek funerary rites. Together these unusual images represent a transition between the state of grief and that of liberation in the face of death.

 

With the support of  Cultural Hellénique Center in Paris

About the artist

Born in Athens in 1989, Ioanna Sakellaraki has a degree in photography, journalism and European urban cultures. In 2018, her work was shortlisted for the Prix Levallois and the Urbanautica Institute Award. She has recently received the RPS Postgraduate Bursary and been nominated for the Prix Inge Morath of Fondation Magnum as well as for the Arles Prix des Voies Off.