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Persephone Michou is a visual artist whose work explores the intersection of memory and photography. She was born in Ioannina, Greece, and raised in Athens, where she studied Photography and Audiovisual Arts at the University of West Attica. She also spent a semester at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary. Her thesis project, The Perfect Blue, was showcased at the Athens Photo Festival in 2020 as part of the Young Greek Photographers exhibition and has since been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions. In 2022, she earned a master’s degree in Arts, Policy & Cultural Entrepreneurship from the University of Groningen, Netherlands.
In 2023 her debut photobook, If I Forget You, I Will Love You Again, was published in collaboration with Zoetrope Athens and won the Best Book Award for books published in South-East Europe at the Maribor Photobook Award in Slovenia. Over the past year, Persephone lived in New York, working with the International Program at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and was recently relocated to Athens.
Awards:
(2024) Shortlisted for APhF Dummy Award feat. Witty Books, Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece
(2023) Best Book Award for books published in SE Europe, Maribor Photobook Award, Maribor, Slovenia
Exhibitions:
(2024) You Are Innocent In Your Dreams, Zero Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
(2024) MoMA Staff Art Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
(2024) Athens Photo Festival: Book Exhibition, The Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
(2023) Thessaloniki Photobiennale: Poetics, Materialities, Performances: Greek Photographic Books 2000 - 2023, MOMus - Museum of Contemporary Art,
Thessaloniki, Greece
(2023) Photometria Festival: A Glimpse of - Photobook Exhibition, Photometria Photography Center (PPC), Ioannina, Greece
(2022) Ctypemag Gallery: Memory - A Photographic Group Exhibition, Bangkok, Thailand
(2021) The Perfect Blue - Solo Exhibition, Aspalathos Art Space, Athens, Greece
(2021) Analog Forever Magazine: A Certain Kind of Blue, Online Exhibition
(2020) Athens Photo Festival: Young Greek Photographers, The Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Art Fairs:
(2024) Polycopies Paris, Bateau Concorde-Atlantique - Berges de Seine, Paris, Fance
(2024) Fly Leaf Book & Zine Festival, WIRWIR, Berlin, Germany
(2024) Athens Art Book Fair, Stoa Tristrato, Athens, Greece
(2023) Polycopies Paris, Bateau Concorde-Atlantique - Berges de Seine, Paris, Fance
(2023) Athens Art Book Fair, Athens Conservatoire, Athens, Greece
Publications:
(2024) K Magazine - Kathimerini (GR): Light Exercises, Issue 1.075, 6-7.01.2024
(2024) Photologio (GR), Interview (Online edition)
(2023) Photobook Monograph: If I forget you, I will love you again, ZOETROPE Athens
(2022) Aeonian Magazine, Issue 06 (Online Edition)
(2021) Imagined Landscapes (UK), Journal 01 (Online edition)
(2021) It's Only Arts (GR), Interview (Online edition)
(2021) Album East Central (EU), Issue 2: Memory & Childhood (Online edition)