View of Amaseia, Amasya
Collection:UAL Art Collection
Date: 2011
Artist: Elisavet Tamouridou
Dimensions:
Framed size: 31.5 x 29.8 cm
Medium: Photograph
Object number: UAC 747
DescriptionTamouridou studied MA Photography at London College of Communication. During the formation of the Turkish and Greek nation states in the 1920s, the Greeks of the Black Sea –known as Pontic Greeks- were ethnically cleansed and forcibly uprooted. Through this work a descendant reconstructs her lost family archive. She looks into the power relations between knowledge, experience and truth that produce an archive and its role in forming identities and national history.