Stelios Kallinikou
Heron, 2017

As Kallinikou was aware of the rules and regulations in the area, including the prohibitions for photographing the landscape around the military base [in Cyprus], he always worked with a spare memory card where he saved his photos of these flying waders. His experience of observing the location with a critical gaze also inspired him for another body of work, the  Over the horizon series (2018), where pilots, parachuters, and antennas are depicted by Kallinikou’s lenses like flamingos. Camouflaging himself as a nature photographer, he documented the coexistence of two different forms of mobility and movement in the location: the ongoing traffic of birds juxtaposed alongside military aircraft, gadgets and vehicles.

Except from “Locations of Gaze” by Misal Adnan Yıldız, published on the occasion of the exhibition “hypersurfacing” curated by Marina Christodoulidou at NiMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019.