/presented artist: Zoe Vassiliou

Sleepwalker focuses on the darker emotions we feel, especially the ones that creep out at night. I am looking for that hallucinatory tension one feels between sleep and wakefulness. As a child I always thought dreams were projections in your brain that would play like a movie on the back of your closed eyelids. Memories laced with bizarre and inexplicable details fueled my imagination, challenging me to distinguish reality from fiction. Ever since photography found me, I channeled those conversations with my subconscious into something cinematic. 

I want my photographs to express a state of delirium, mysteries within and beyond the frame, dangers, dreams, and the unforeseen. My models are photographed mostly after twilight, in dilapidated settings, or in locations as simple as their own bedrooms. I emphasize architecture, topography and situation, and incorporate unique lighting, whether from streetlamps, the moon, or unexpected flashes. I aim for macabre expression and choreography to evoke an almost paranormal or alien- esque storyline. I want to merge my attraction to the landscape with a sense of being stalked or haunted by the space you’re in. I hope to embrace the more fraught side of my psyche, and honor it, because even the difficult and upsetting feelings we have can be morphed into something beautiful.