Margarita Mavromichalis presents a series of 19 photographs taken between 2019 and 2021. She attempts to show an ‘inner’ reality through deliberate, careful stagings within a bourgeois home. That reality emerges as a consequence of the general confinement imposed by the pandemic. Isolation from the outside world, reversal of conditions, and the subsequent lack of communication result in an inward turn – whether it’s the ‘closed’ safety of the private home or a more profound introversion.

"If a photograph says more about the photographer than the subject itself, then every image taken is a self-portrait. But an actual self-portrait of the artist is not just a revelation of who the artist is, the image strips the artist down to the bone, making him feel naked to the eyes of the public, exposing him and leaving him more vulnerable than ever." Margarita Mavromichalis

"Margarita Mavromichalis’ photographs result from a directed and staged observation of her own image, self-portraits that document her active participation in their creation. And when, at times, she veers dangerously close to fashion photography, without that being her intention, the artist’s caustic humour and a surreal sense of the unexpected prevail, creating a particularly fertile tension between the content and the stylisation of the image." Curator Elizabeth Plessa