The Nameless Dread – a psychoanalytical term firstly introduced by Wilfred Bion – is an attempt to visually approach the dreadful feeling of emptiness and non-understandable anxiety, through a fictional and intellectual prism. While everyone remembers their childhood fears, it is not easy to understand this nameless dread that follows us in adulthood. By seeing the human mind as a cave swarming with odd beings, symbols and strange objects, most of them unconscious and unilluminated, photographs are used as a visual representation of the journey into the unknowable parts of consciousness and as projections of all the negative feelings I might have not been able to conceptualize as a child. The Nameless Dread is the entry into the cave, an imaginary re-entry into the womb of the mother, a place where thoughts go when they are forgotten.
Mari Masouridou (b.1983, Gr.) is a visual artist and photographer living in Athens, Greece. Her practice often deals with the human condition and the symbolic relationship of objects and people, focusing on notions of belonging, vulnerability, abandonment and neglect. She studied at Focus School of Photography and New Media in Athens, graduating in 2015 and has taken photography courses at The International Center of Photography in New York. She also holds a BA and MA in Law. In 2016 she was selected from the Hellenic Center for Photography with her series ‘Stripped’ as one of Athens Photo Festival’s 2016 Young Greek Photographers. Her work has been presented in several publications and venues in Greece and abroad, including the Contemporary Art Museum of Crete, the Benaki Museum, Cosmos-Arls Books, the Melina Mercouri Foundation, Float Gallery, Beton7 Gallery, Booze Cooperativa Gallery, the Void Gallery and the 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art.
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