OVER.STATE

by Ilias Georgiadis

Over.State" (2011-2019) - a story of a young and lost person trying to feel free and find love - is a personal adventure and the first attempt to depict a poetic representation of my existential agony while exploring the emotional variations of the human condition.

An effort to understand how we express freedom, intimacy and closeness; how we seek true connection with the inner self and the other.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in northern Greece, Ilias started experimenting with the photographic medium at the age of 19. After extensive travels in 2011, he stops his university studies and starts making pictures in an obsessive way.

Ηis main interest focuses on the basis of the current social and interpersonal issues about human nature. An approach based on Europe which started in 2012 in Greece and continues until now.He is always questioning the body and the mind, always trying to reach and express the limits of oneself within all possible ways.

Ilias’s debut series of work named "Over.State" has been shown in various international festivals, solo and group shows across the world and has been featured in on-line and printed publications.

“For me, photography is the missing dot that connects what is deep inside us and we cannot understand or describe, with the world. A connection that transcends and moves through spacetime, in unpredictable, mysterious and non-linear ways. A link between reality and love.

I believe we take pictures because our inner self wants to reconnect with the cosmos. We want to feel close to people, places, objects and as time goes by, we recognize in them a part of ourselves. With photography, we reveal ourselves to the unknown, while preserving a link to the real.”