“Image Making / Παραγωγή Εικόνων” is a visual atlas of image making made by Anastasia Pavlou in 2020-2021. Thick, heavy, and physical, it is conceived both as a printed book and an artist object. Within it, images and image-making are explored porously, interlacing photographs, scans, digital collages, and drawings in varied non hierarchical configurations. This book can also be seen as a map and a record of personal experience– one that is about looking, and one that looks.

“Image Making / Παραγωγή Εικόνων” doesn’t hinge on the “how” or the “why” of looking, but on the “where”, becoming another locus for considering the environments that are created by the visual perception of a subject. These environments take form between a specific time and an abstract place. Its stream of images shares space with conversations between people from a shared cultural milieu, exploring questions about image-making and its place in the world. These are records of twenty-five recent exchanges Anastasia had with artists and art workers specifically for the purposes of this book, and ones which will be translated between English and Greek. The various contributions come together to form an important historical record, providing a snapshot of distinct, but also overlapping and intertwined, views about what image-making means today. The publication is formed as a question and a record of related observations. Choosing propositions over answers, it is a visual and textual dialogue with purposefully vague limits and indefinite potential.

It features texts from Hugo Canoilas, Vasilis Chamam, Julia Gardener, Panos Giannikopoulos, Danai Giannoglou, Alix Janta, Stelios Kallinikou, Aris Mochloulis, NMR, Margot Norton, Eleni Odysseos, Eva Papamargariti, Yorgos Prinos, Sebastian Loyd Rees, David Sampethai, Laurentiu Sarjan, Erica Scourti, Kyriakos Spyrou, Jesper List Thomsen, Maria Toumazou and Arnisa Zeqo.

“Image Making / Παραγωγή Εικόνων” was designed by Korina Gallika.

It was launched in June 2022 at the Goethe Institut, Athens, GR.