DOUBLE VISION

In this workshop, we will explore the dialogue between image and language.

How can the two art forms—poetry and photography—engage in a productive interaction without simply interpreting or illustrating one another?
How is a new, open-ended work of art created through conversation?

During the workshop, participants will be guided by the instructors to cultivate a dialogue between these two forms of expression.
A poem is made of images, but it also gives rise to images within each of us. An image, in turn, contains meanings and emotions that emerge and unfold inside us—through connections and divergences.
We listen to and discuss poems in order to create our own images, and we “read” images to find our own words.

A poem is made of images, but it also gives rise to images within each of us. An image, in turn, contains meanings and emotions that emerge and unfold inside us—through connections and divergences.
We listen to and discuss poems in order to create our own images, and we “read” images to find our own words.
We sharpen our gaze, open our ears, deepen our relationship with language, and strengthen our visual and poetic expression, aiming to develop a new, original body of work.

This workshop is for anyone who wishes to explore and enrich their everyday connection with image and language—not in isolation, but in interplay.

Workshop theme: THE JOURNEY
Each day we take journeys—through closed or open spaces, going to and from. But journeys also happen within our thoughts and emotions. The Earth follows a path, and so does each life through time. A journey can be reading a book, watching a film or a photograph. A relationship, or a career path, is a kind of journey.
A journey includes a starting point and an endpoint—but most importantly, the line that connects them. Memory also stores meaningful paths: invisible journeys in family albums, travel photographs, personal moments.

In this workshop, we will work with Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes, in open dialogue with the photographic works Traces Within by Eva Voutsaki and Dog Days Bogotá by Alec Soth—projects that address mythical and real journeys through time.

To apply:
Please send an email to: artinart.athens@gmail.com