Conceptual nominee

Planet C begun to form on 12/03/2020 when I was called to face the pandemic. It is a series of photographs, consisted of surreal depictions that refer to the collective experience of isolation through the personal gaze.

The arrival of the virus and consequently the repetivive quarantines, brought me to Planet C, where I was revealed a different prism of viewing and dealing with my daily life. My personal objects began to lose their usefulness and turned into imaginary compositions, which were created to symbolize my worries about the virus, the inclusion and the fear of loss.

Planet C became the means of visualizing my inner worries through the prism of childhood imagination. Every surreal composition passes through the prism of children's imagination. The unfiltered observation, and the color palette of this photo series compose the elements of my inner child view. My planet is dominated by the color palette of pink, which is the color of my childhood, that makes me feel safe. As a child paints what finds difficult to express in words, so I create surrealistic compositions to express my concerns about what happened two years ago and continues untiL today.

Catherine Chatzdimitriou is a fine art photographer, a distinguished gratuate from the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts (University of West Attica). Her artworks have been exhibited at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in cooperation with the Photo Industries of New York, at the Benaki Museum for Athens Photo Festival, where she was the curators’ choice for “Talent Lab” and at MOMUS – Museum of Photography for the exhibtion “Young Greek Photographers 2010 - 2018” in cooperation with Hellenic Center of Photography. Her body of work “Nyfes“, has been selected among many other artworks and officially belongs to the permanent collection of Momus- Museum of Photography. Also her artwork “Planet C - Anasynthesis“ was recently joined at the permament collection of MOMUS- Experimental Center of Arts, Thessaloniki. Her works explore the formation of female identity, the imprints of childhood in the present and the meaning of the intermediate. She creates surreal environments and she connects reality with the surreal elements that surround her compositions.