Fine Art nominee

This work is a clipping of a project called "Memories", realized during the summer at the small village of Temeni, in Greece. In a place of affection, where there were built/constructed memories of generations of the family. An element present in the property is a large fig tree, which has gifted us with its shade amid jokes and games, veiled encounters and vows of love. A great tree that, despite tumbling after an earthquake, survived and continued to grow and create new roots. However, after family disagreements and years of abandonment of the property, the great tree was covered by pests, vines and thorns, under which it was slowly dying without the light of sun. A new generation of the family is born, as is the need to resume ties and seek roots. We found the property with its nature devastated... And cleaning the great fig tree was a real necessity in many ways, a symbol of recreating ties, forgiving and retrieving memories. Nature is resilient. The work documents in a lyrical and subjective form the presentation and insertion of collective memories of generations to a child who will experience and, from there, build its own memories, learning about the importance of family ties, the reconstruction and preservation of our own history, of our invisible roots.

Claudia Missailidis was born in Brazil. She is an undergraduate student in Visual Arts at Universidade Veiga de Almeida. She previously studied Biology and Physics at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Her first steps in photography were taken in late 2018 at the Núcleo de Estudos em Fotografia Contemporânea of the Sociedade Fluminense de Fotografia. Claudia develops personal projects, particularly those exploring visual poetics as a means of personal expression and the construction of meaning. Her photographic work is characterized by an intimate view of the world and spaces of affection, bringing to life the unique bond between people or between individuals and their places of emotional connection.