Artist
Ania Vouloudi
Ania Vouloudi (b. 1987) is a photographer, video artist and poet with a background in civil engineering. She currently lives and works in Thessaloniki, Greece. Chronicling her life in analogue images, Vouloudi’s artistic work presents docufiction stories that address the apparent banality of daily routine. Her approach is both low-fi and unpretentious. Rooted in photography, the installations she creates also feature audio, writing and objects. Zine-making is another important feature of Vouloudi’s practice; she has collaborated with Void since its inception, co-publishing two zines in 2016 and 2017.
Monotony
Animals line up, TVs coordinate, one leg gets injured and firecrackers blow up in the sky.
Having accepted the stereotype of life, I instinctively followed the recording of the contrary happenings which confirm the rule of monotony; my only goal is to tease it and negotiate a new treaty. Monotony is a repeated point of exception, it is images in which the melancholy of existence inheres, but simultaneously they celebrate it, thus, rendering the rupture of reality a little more probable.
Ania Vouloudi is a photographer, video artist and poet currently living in Thessaloniki, Greece. In her art, she uses analogue mediums, findings and chronicles of her life to create docufiction stories. Ania ́s photographs deal with apparent banality and daily routine. Having a low-fi and unpretentiousness approach that captivates us. Ania has experimented a lot with zine making, which we highly appreciate in her practice.
Elena Helfrecht is a German visual artist based in Bavaria. Having a dark and eerie aesthetic, Elena navigates universes that we consider in resonance with Void’s practices: the threshold of fiction and reality, the exploration of existentialism through mortality, trauma, memory and post-memory.
Eva Vei is a Greek visual artist whose work mainly revolves around the notion of communication and intimacy within everyday human interaction. She is interested in exploring issues of identity, belonging and human connections in modern societies while challenging the boundaries of the photographic medium. Void believes that her work, yet still unpublished, perfectly suits the book form, due to her ability in creating non-linear visual narratives, and her search for new methodologies of documentary photography and storytelling.
Maria Siorba is a Greek visual artist based in Athens, with an educational background in Communication, Graphic design and Fine Arts. Her subtle approach to
intimacy and human emotions is what sparked Void’s curiosity about Siorba’s work. Probably one of the most important contemporary subjects, “empathy” is a highlight of Siorba’s artistic exploration. Communicating, and miscommunicating. The difficulties humans encounter in expressing themselves. She examines the role that personality, mental state, emotional intelligence and cultural context play and how all these functions under the use of the constantly-evolving, technological tools of
communication.
Vic Bakin is a self-educated Ukrainian photographer. Rooted in Kyiv, Ukraine, Bakin explores different local communities such as queer and fashion scenes,
rave and music culture and closed communities such as student dorms. Recently, due to the ongoing circumstances, his focus shifted to the themes of war in Ukraine. Void’s interest in personal diaries finds a great place in Bakin’s body of work — which explores his identity through analogue photography.