Careof, within the FDV Residency Program project in collaboration with the University of Ioannina (Greece), presents the works of the young Greek artist Orestis Mavroudis (1988, Athens) created during his year-long stay in Milan.

Orestis moves between photography and video with a mature and refined language where video is often "photography in motion." With works understood as fragments of a broader and open narrative, he speaks of the "romanticism of simplicity, obviousness, and the impossible." The details of the things he observes take on absolute value, like a little girl holding an ice cream cone, a strange vortex of trash with an ever-changing shape, or the interiors of an apartment viewed from the top of a staircase. And again, the imperceptible passage of an insect over Lake Pamvotis in Ioannina or the intense green fluorescences of a swampy scene caused by an excess of plankton.

The presentation at Careof focuses on a video triptych consisting of Piccolo disaccordo 723, Rudi, andiamo! and To be on the top is symbolic (2011). The fixed shots seem to absorb the light and atmosphere that permeate the city at dawn, while the video camera remains still, searching the urban landscape for traces of human presence. The protagonists are the motionless wheel of a Luna Park, a girl sitting on a branch, and the peaks of buildings immersed in the noise of the street at first light.

The presented works are also part of a reflective path that Orestis is developing for his thesis, on one hand focusing on the use of the word as a visual sign within the image, and on the other hand as a reflection on the title and its relationship with the work. What is being investigated is the dimension of an intermediate space considered as a place of interaction between the image and its title.

In addition to the triptych, the photographic works This is what I mean when I say goodbye (2011) and I made this for her smile (2012) are on view, as well as the videos Limone e fragola (2012) and All the fucking kinds of nature (2012).

With the contribution of Fondazione Cariplo and Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lombardia