“Corfu in the Present Tense” by Nikos Pitsilos consists of more than seventy black and white photographs taken between 2021-2023. It all started when the lens of his camera captured in its frame, the corners of the buildings intersected by countless laundry as they were seen from his window. Soon his investigative mood for “Koryfo” became an imperative necessity and the necessity was transformed into art.

The aim was to express as best he could the different landscapes he encountered, the alternations of the spaces that converse with the past and with each other, trying to connect with the present tense. Each of his shots contrasts the contrasts of an island with the history and tradition of Corfu. Each individual image creates a reflection, offering the viewer multiple readings of another reality.The clearly and artfully premeditated management of light is reminiscent of cinematic shots by Swedish directors. The use of color photographs within black and white ones is not a random choice. Their subject refers to advertising campaigns from the 70s and, like a memory, comes to illuminate the black and white present tense with nostalgia. The mystery, the contrasts, the melancholy and the visual gaze create suspense at times and tranquility at other times. We will never know what happens in the “blackened” corners of the market or in the abandoned villages of Corfu. This is the challenge that we as viewers are called upon to respond to.

( More details about the 2025 exhibition will be available in the coming weeks. )