Daphne Rocou creates a photographic story, between fiction and reality, with the involvement of the inhabitants of the village of Paradisi, in the mountainous region in the south of the island of Euboea, in Greece. It is an allegorical tale on education and knowledge. Daphne Rocou writes: “Paradisi Regained is a series of staged photos, based on a fictional narrative of the life of a village teacher in the 1950s. With the participation of the region’s inhabitants, I created tableaus inspired by the testimonies of former pupils and story of their teacher. The living picture was common for recreating historical events in Greek schools. I deliberately used the mythical aspect of the past and childhood to transcribe these testimonies. However, the project questions the value of education and knowledge in our time. How would it be if we all had an education and knowledge that gave us the basis for free thinking, and an inventive and upstanding mind?”
Daphne Rocou, Paradisi Regained
June 1st to June 30, 2017
Little Big Gallery
45 rue Lepic
75018 Paris
France
