CONTACT : dimitra.dede@gmail.com
Dimitra Dede is clearly one of those photographers who use the world and their experience of space, people, time, shapes, to produce images that express their feelings, and stem from a deep necessity. In her case, the light invents details and sculptures in a dark world and captures silver grains to create vibrations in grey areas, caressing curves and lines, producing emotion and surprise. In her photographs, a hand, a body, a glacier, a female sex, clouds, a face, a tree, a body or a rock are equivalent. Pretexts to make an image, to provoke it, to generate it. For this reason Dimitra Dede considers them as raw material that she works, scratches, transforms, and mutates so as to create a world that exists only in the image, a floating world anchored to a disappeared reality. Time has stopped, or it became eternal, we don't know, as it is strictly photographic and has nothing to do with that of our clocks.
Glaciers have now structures, between fabric and flesh. Glances, when there are any, emerge from a nebula. Between the body and the rocks, a new relationship mysteriously appears.
This is another definition of photography. One of artists who try to find in the real and physical world correspondences to their inner world, to their emotions, pains or happiness of a moment. Without ever hiding behind the pretense of an illusory "objectivity". A beautiful way, even if it can sometimes be uncomfortable, to say "I".
Christian Caujolle
BIO
Dimitra Dede is a London based visual artist working mainly with photography. Her work has been presented in galleries, museums and festivals in Europe, USA and Asia. Her book ‘Mayflies' was nominated for the Author Book Award at the Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards 2020 and for the Unseen Dummy Award 2018 at the Unseen Festival, Amsterdam. Her book ‘Apeiron' was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Foundation Photography Prize 2023 and the Author Book Award at the Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards 2022.
SELECTED AWARDS
2022 - Deutsche Börse Foundation Photography Prize 2023, Nomination for Apeiron
2022 - Author Book Award finalist - 'Apeiron', The Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards
2020 - Author Book Award finalist - 'Mayflies', The Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards
2020 - Best books of the year, 'Mayflies', Blake Andrews
2019 - Best books of the year, 'Mayflies', Simon Baker
2018 - Unseen Dummy Award finalist, 'Mayflies', Unseen Festival Amsterdam
BOOKS
Metaphors monograph published by Void
Apeiron monograph published by Origini Edizioni
Mayflies monograph published by Void
PUBLICATIONS
Preto 12, Cloro, Dimitra Dede, Guido Gazzilli published by Preto
A study of Mayflies zine published by Void
Spew VIII book published by Spewedtion
Fisheye Photo Review 2020.21 published by Fisheye Gallery
Ouvrir Les Yeux, published by Connaissance des arts
HerStories. Photographic practices, 1974-2024, MOMus
Found and Lost published by Void/Float Gallery
Nostalgia published by Bad to the Bone and Void
Faux published by the Center for Fine Art Photography
Color Show published by Black Box Gallery
COLLECTIONS
MoMA Library, USA
Galerie le Chateau d"Eau Museum, France
Falmouth University Library, UK
Bolland Library, University of the West of England, UK
University of the Arts London Library, UK
Galerie le Chateau d"Eau Library, France
Karel De Grote Hogeschool, Belgium
Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
San Telmo Museum, Spain
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, USA
Cornell University Library, USA
Princeton University Library, USA
Missouri State University Library, USA
Med Photo Fest, Greece
National Library of Greece, Greece
Void, Greece
Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, Georgia
ISSP, Latvia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 - Apeiron exhibition, Galerie le Château d'Eau, France
2021 - Mayflies exhibition, Adorna Gallery, Portugal
2021 - Apeiron exhibition, Spot Home Gallery, Italy
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Michael Ackerman and Dimitra Dede, Arte Fiera, Bologna
2021 - Palais du Gouvernement, Mayflies, Nancy
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Les Abattoirs Musée, «Ouvrir les yeux», Toulouse
2024 - Michael Ackerman, Lorenzo Castore, Dimitra Dede, Anders Petersen, MIAPhoto Fair, Milan
2024 - Adorna Gallery, “Da representação à auto-representação”, Porto
2023 - Visage(s) d'Europe, Paris
2023 - Arte Fiera, Bologna
2023 - Museu da Imagem em Movimento, Territórios, Portugal
2023 - Zoetrope Athens, "Bluring The Raster", Athens
2023 - MOMus, Thessaloniki PhotoΒiennale, Greece
2022 - Festival Les Nuits Photo, Viscera, Paris
2022 - Galerie le Château d'Eau, Apeiron, France
2021 - Adorna Gallery, Mayflies, Portugal
2021 - Spot Home Gallery, Apeiron, Italy
2021 - La Nuu Festival, The light of the words, Rubi
2021 - Museum of Fishery & Shipbuilding, The Green Path, Athens
2021 - Palais du Gouvernement, Mayflies, Nancy
2019 - Athens Photo Festival, The Other Sons and Daughters, Athens
2019 - Belfast Photo Festival, Mayflies, Belfast
2018 - Benaki Museum, Photo-graphē, Athens
2018 - Unseen Festival, Mayflies, Amsterdam
2018 - La Nuu Festival de Fotografia, Viscera, Spain
2018 - Obscura Festival, Viscera - Mayflies, George Town
2018 - Cosmos, Family of No Man, Arles
2017 - Float Gallery, Found and lost, Athens
2016 - Void Art Space, Mayflies, Athens
2016 - Center for Fine Art Photography, Faux, Colorado
2015 - Black Box gallery, Color show, Portland
2014 - Brighton Photo Biennial, Night Contact, Brighton