2022 Book Fair Exhibitor: Ioanna Sakellaraki

2022 Book Fair Exhibitor: Ioanna Sakellaraki

Ioanna Sakellaraki (b.1989) is a Greek visual artist and researcher. Her work investigates the relationship between collective cultural memory and fiction. Drawing emphasis on the photographic object, process and encounter, she explores the boundaries of a primitive, yet futuristic vision of places and people.

She was recently awarded a Doctoral Scholarship for undertaking her PhD in Art after graduating from an MA Photography from the Royal College of Art. She is the recipient of The Royal Photographic Society Bursary Award 2018 and was named Student Photographer of the Year by Sony World Photography Awards 2020. In 2019, she was awarded with the Reminders Photography Stronghold Grant in Tokyo and the International Photography Grant Creative Prize. Nominations include: the Inge Morath Award by Magnum Foundation in USA, the Prix HSBC, the Prix Levallois and the Prix Voies Off in France.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in art festivals and galleries with recent solo shows in Tokyo, Belfast, Braga and Berlin. Her projects have been featured in magazines such as The New Yorker and journals including The Guardian, Financial Times and Deutsche Welle. Her first monograph ‘The Truth is in the Soil’ is published by London- based publishing house GOST Books. Developed in the intersection of ancestral rituals, private trauma and passage of time, the work is a 5-year exploration of grief as an elegy to her late father and the dying tradition of mourning in her homeland Greece.

https://ioannasakellaraki.com/