A kilo of feathers, a kilo of iron

Lydia Dambassina was born in 1951 in Thessaloniki. At the age of fifteen she moved to Lyon, France, where she completed high school. She studied visual arts at the Grenoble School of Fine Arts and psychopathology and pedagogy at the Universities of Paris V and Grenoble. She worked as a researcher in psychiatric epidemiology and as an art director-director in film production. Since 1976, she has used various media such as painting, photography, installations and video projections. In 2004 he began working on a series of staged photographs in which the image coexists with texts, mainly quotations, from Greek and French daily newspapers. In the last few years of her work, Lydia Dampasina has focused on the global economic and moral crisis and the inequalities that are unfolding rapidly.