Turquoise 2 – Losing turquoise series – Ioustini Drakoulakou
🔹 140 x 115 cm – Edition of 3 + 2 AP – €1,300 (+ framing costs) 🔹 20 x 16.67 cm – Edition of 5 + 2 AP – €300 (+ framing costs) 🔹 Printing : Inkjet printing on archival paper ( museum quality that uses refined pigment particles to create beautiful, high-resolution works of art)
Turquoise 2 extends the visual meditation initiated by Ioustini Drakoulakou around mineral memory, through his series Losing turquoise . Produced from thin sections observed under a polarizing microscope, this work reveals an almost cosmic, vibrant and fragmented material, like a celestial vestige frozen in time.
This photograph was taken in 2019 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as part of the artist's research on Greece's only turquoise deposit, located in Vathi Kilkis. A work blending science and poetry, where the gaze falls somewhere between geology and introspection, between disappearance and revelation.
Turquoise 2 is a fragile and magnetic imprint of what was, a crystalline trace of the intimate and the invisible.
