Exhibition Essay
"George Alamidis has taken faces derived from Greek identity cards from the 3Os to the 50s. The photographic visages look out from crude outdoor light which renders the faces like stone with little subtlety in the features; the resolution deteriorates with each manipulation as the artist transposes the archival information upon layers of print. These cards's which once testified to the identity of a person and permitted freedom are now hopelessly out-of date; their characters and the authorities exercising surveillance over them have both passed, a theme rather tragically underscored by the latest digital processes of their collaging".
Robert Nelson
May 1997
May 1997
