Haris Epaminonda

Haris Epaminonda studied at the Royal College of Art and Kingston University in London, graduating in 2003. Epaminonda and her partner Daniel Gustav Cramer (born 1975) have worked on their collaborative project, Infinite Library, since 2007. They have exhibited their work on a number of occasions, including in 2012 at the Kunsthalle Lissabon and in dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel.[2]

Haris Epaminonda's work incorporates collage, installation, film, and photography. Initially, Epaminonda sourced photographic images from French magazines and books from the 1940s to the 1960s. From 2005, she started focusing on black-and-white collages of illustrations of people and architecture. In 2007, she began concentrating on color images and paper. Epaminonda creates idiosyncratic image compositions, which are created by photographing found photo materials, such as in her Polaroid-Serie (2008–09). Epaminonda also makes films with a Super8 camera, which she then digitally cuts—this, consequently, creates movie loops of different lengths.[3]

The focus of her work centers on expansive collages and multilayered installations, which result from a combination of images, films, photographs, sculptures, and found objects. The room installations have a certain orientation, but can also become a labyrinth, which sets viewers on a particular path.[3] Epaminonda was nominated for the 2013 Preis der Nationalgalerie.

• Early Summer The End of Summer Late Autumn, Mousse Publishing, Daniel Gustav Cramer und Haris Epaminonda, 2014, ISBN 978-9-89982-1-330
• Haris Epaminonda. Late Autumn, Walther König, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86335-0-185
• Haris Epaminonda, Malmö Konsthall, 2009, ISBN 978-9-17704-1-177

Haris Epaminonda