Andrea Motta: 1st Moments in Greece
© Andrea Motta
About the Exhibition
"Ist Moments in Greece", a photography exhibition by Andrea Motta, is another installment in the VASA exhibition series entitled "Witness". Motta's iconic work, drawing from the paradigmatic structure of the portrait, engages the eye in an unsettling manner. The people being portrayed are in that mid-zone between two worlds: one of death and destruction and the other a world of hope and promise.
We see in these photographs survivors: women, children and men. As we know from media coverage some have not survived their passage (remember the horrific image of the dead five year old boy in the arms of a rescuer) and others will not survive their flight emotionally or politically to a safe haven in Europe.
This exhibition includes a number of video statements by Andrea Motta, short texts by co-curators Igor Manko and Roberto Muffoletto and a video overview of two recent books by Motta.
VASA has included work from her recent book : “Trade – Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation”
Andrea Motta, through out her history as an image-maker has demonstrated an intense consistency of vision and humanist concern for victims and survivors.
On VASA Exhibitions:
VASA Exhibitions over the years have provided a platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko.
VASA Exhibitions are international and multicultural. The curatorial team has strived to present work that not only represents the photographers but also the social, historical and cultural. As an online international project, VASA works to engage various digital tools. Video, as an example, not only offers the potential for the presentation of works, it provides the opportunity and framework for the voice of the author to be seen and heard. Through image, text, sound and animation, VASA works to expand the exhibition paradigm and provide a rich experience for the viewer (as well as the author).
VASA Exhibitions provides a viewing and research environment by archiving all of the exhibitions in their entirety. For example, the viewer may view a 2009 exhibition as it was presented and not just traces of its existence.
VASA Exhibitions includes video and video series, and sound works.