Artist
Eleni Onasoglou
Eleni Onasoglou was born in Syros Island (Greece), where she lived during her early years. In 2008 she graduated with a scholarship from ESP school of photography.
Today she lives and works as a photographer in Athens. Her work has been published in magazines from Greece and abroad, and presented in photography group exhibitions.
Hippocampus
The Hippocampus is part of the brain center which controls the memory. The emotional belief based on the fear that memory will be lost, led me, unconsciously at first, consciously later, to photograph with the ultimate purpose that the photographic creation is a visual diary. By collecting images, I essentially build a coded memory map. A map which eventually decodes it, escapes its prime role and leads to an inner journey of exploring the time and the emotions that it creates in its course. A management of fear, loss, repetition, guilt.
By nominating Romain Bagnard, Céline Croze, Julie Glassberg and Eleni Onasoglu for Futures talents 2021, TPF unveils the group of emerging European photographers and their works with a strong visual identity that result from the capacities to develop long-term personal projects throughout deep researches to define an individual photographic writing, to build a coherence between the content and the shape the photo project is supposed to take in its final version.
Between Celine Croze ’s SQEVNV that focuses on social issues and human bodies as territories; Julie Glassberg’s Dekotora - a saga of misunderstood subculture of heavily decorated trucks in Japan; Aphros by Roman Bagnard who brings to surface the opaque signs of a primitive ephemeral urban alphabet and Eleni Onasoglu’s Hippocampus – a visual diary, a coded memory map that leads to an inner journey to explore the time and the emotions – TPF gives to discover 4 artists with very different photographic writings who re-invent their individual visual codes, overcome their vulnerability and transgress the reality they look at into the images that attract by their multilayerness of meanings and sensuality.
Text by Nestan Nijaradze