"How you view it depends on your mood, agrees the director when we meet at the gallery of his Athens exhibition on its opening night. You'll see it one day and laugh, then see it another day and be like, What happened here?' It's dark, it's nuanced, it's why I love that picture."
"During Poor Things he produced lavish portraits of its stars—Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Jerrod Carmichael—while simultaneously exposing viewers to the lighting rigs, props and scaffolding that usually lurk just outside the movie camera's shot. For the follow-up, 2024's Kinds of Kindness, Lanthimos created a body of work that had more in common aesthetically with American photographers Lewis Baltz and Henry Wessel Jr."
Director Yorgos Lanthimos has opened an exhibition in central Athens featuring his personal photographs taken while traveling through Greece. The exhibition is housed in a temple-like structure with white columns, displaying images that reflect his distinctive absurdist sensibility. The photographs capture unusual and darkly humorous moments—such as a coffin beside a mop and horses with heads obscured by trees—that evoke the same emotional complexity found in his films. Lanthimos explains that these images can be interpreted differently depending on one's mood, combining darkness with nuance. The exhibition also includes earlier photographic works connected to his films, including portraits from Poor Things and aesthetic studies from Kinds of Kindness that reference American photographers like Lewis Baltz and Henry Wessel Jr.
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