Cache
Stefania Orfanidou
Cache in computing refers to the hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests can be served faster. It is a place where memory is kept well-hidden from the eye of the user, yet it is all the time present and ready to be recalled. In Cache, space and chronology are undefined. Fragments of dreams and constructed moments become the ferment of a new memory, without being recollections. On a thin crust of reality, the imaginary world is weaving a new tissue. 'Cache' is a map of that living memory born in the present, functioning for the viewer as a tool of recalling a past memory. Cache oscillates between past and present uncertainty, as an invisible trap, that aims to reach at the most inaccessible data of the mind, at the place where a personal redemption might be hidden.
Stefania Orfanidou was born in 1989. She is a photographer and an architect currently living and working in Athens, Greece. She has lived in Kavala, Thessaloniki, Madrid, Rotterdam, L’Aquila and Chania. In January 2019 she founded the architectural atelier CHORA. In her work, a personal experience or event, real or imaginary, is the starting point for fragments’ stitching and the composition of tales, where the irrational, the reasonable, the uncanny and the secret may coexist harmoniously. Her photographic work has been featured in magazines, galleries and festivals in Greece and abroad. In February 2019 she published the book ‘Pendulum’, a visual recounting of a return journey to the city of L’Aquila in central Italy. In 2020 she received the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS. In 2021 she published the book ‘Cold Turkey’ and she created the art installation ‘Daidala’ at Yali Tzamisi at Chania, Crete.