Yiannis Galanakis

YIANNIS GALANAKIS

Location: Greece

Yiannis Galanakis studied at the Physics Department of
the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Since 2012, his artistic focus has shifted into the
re
o editing and compositing, adding a new dimension to his creative endeavors.

His photographic work has been presented in a variety of contexts, including group and solo art exhibitions, as well as recognized international competitions and festivals, with awards and publications in international art magazines.

 

EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS

2025     alm -8th

8th Chania International Photo Festival


             -Published review in the SHOWCASE
MY ART Platform



2024     -Publication
in the 34th edition of Global Art Times
    -Publication in Art IDEAL Book, v.4



 -Publication in World Wide Art Magazine #14




   -7th Chania International Photo
Festival



2023    -Publication in
Art IDEAL Magazine v.3 



   -6th Chania International Photo Festival 


   -Among the winners in Artavita's 2022  ARTIST OF THE YEAR
competition.    

2022    -5th Chania International Photo Festival

2021 


  -4th

Chania
International Photo Festival

2015 


   -“Itinerant Images”,
S.G Art Gallery, Lycabettus,
  Athens, Solo Exhibition           
2014 


   -“Castles in the air”,
Mare Gallery, Chania, Group
Exhibition       


2002    -“Chania Creators”, Municipal Art Gallery of Chania,    Group Exhibition


  -“The ego is another, the
ego as a stake”, Villa
Koundourou, Chania, Solo Exhibition    




Portfolio:

Transcriptions

The works in this section, part of an ongoing project, present aspects of an intriguing, imaginary, or at least "disturbed" reality that converses with the irrational, the intuitive, or the subconscious.
As memory changes events, with the help and confidence to the random and the subconscious, these works reconstitute memories into a new reality that transcends them.
Through the elaboration and shaping of the composition of these images, experiences, feelings, moods or qualities are transcribed and opened to possibilities of worlds that, while they have not completely "lost" their references, seem mutated and strange at the same time.
I am interested in this dual function of the image: its contradiction to maintain established relations in forms, words or meanings and at the same time to deconstruct them, leading us to the wonderful swing between a "we are some others here" and a "we are ourselves in a multifaceted elsewhere".
My goal is to cause an emotional vibration in the viewer where its roots are nourished by the soil of the sensible and the conceivable inseparably.
(All works are digitally edited compositions from my photos with sufficient resolution for exposure in dimensions up to 60HX90W cm.)

No Signal “No Signal”

Photograph and digital image composite

Fortune Teller “Fortune Teller”

Photograph and digital image composite

Untitled “Untitled”

Photograph and digital image composite

Untitled “Untitled”

Photograph and digital image composite

Untitled “Untitled”

Photograph and digital image composite

Alienation “Alienation”

Photograph and digital image composite