Petros Efstathiadis

Petros Efstathiadis creates ephemeral sculptures, sets, and structures from found materials in his hometown of Liparo in northern Greece. Once he documents them, the sculptures are dismantled and the component parts returned to everyday use.

Efstathiadis’ works evoke a complex relationship with place, one which is at once local and – thanks to the surreal, fictionalised sets – universal. Man with Apples is part of a series of portraits of local people taken in his parents’ back garden that focuses on the people and stories of his home town, yet reflects wider narratives about life in Europe today. General Store, from the series Gold Rush, recreates the feeling of a boom-and-bust town, as relevant in the California gold fields as it is today in modern-day Greece.

Petros Efstathiadis (1980, Liparo, Greece) has exhibited in various international exhibitions, including Kunst Haus Wien, Austria (2019), ARSENAL de Metz, France (2018), and Izolyatsia Foundation, Kiev, (2016). In 2018 he won the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie. He holds regular workshops and lectures on photography at the School of Applied Arts (CEPV) in Vevey and at ZHdK University in Zurich, both in Switzerland.