Nikos Aliagas: Regards Vénitiens

Fondazione dell’Albero d’Oro hosts an exhibition by the Greek-French fine-art photographer Nikos Aliagas covering more than 400 square metres on the ground floor and in the courtyard of Palazzo Vendramin Grimani. The show, entitled Nikos Aliagas. Regards Vénitiens, was the result of a new artist-in-residence programme beginning in July 2022 and ending in December.

Nikos Aliagas traveled through the Venetian alleyways meeting that rare demographic, the inhabitants of the city, ever intent on avoiding the tourists’ lenses. Nikos Aliagas’ lens searched for the extraordinary daily life and views of Campo San Polo and its surrounding sestiere, or district, allowing the images to tell the stories of those who live in these places and bring them to life. Nikos Aliagas takes photographs in black and white. In them, the artist explores contrasts, backlighting and movement in frames that portray straight and curved lines, such as a face or the corner of an alleyway.