With the completion of this season's salt harvest, "Diexodus" organizes and presents a new exhibition, "AND SALT WAS BORN". A photography exhibition by Polydefkis Asonitis, at "Diexodos"
Opening Saturday, October 8, at 8 pm.
It is a photographic exhibition of shots from all stages of salt production. From the shaping of the "pans", perforation and watering to the extraction, harvesting and the creation of the threshing floors with the well-known salt pyramids.
The photographs were taken exclusively from the Tourlis salt marsh, where is the Salt Museum, the first and only thematic museum of its kind in Greece, is located and operates.
Photography professor Polydefkis Asonitis was at the salt marsh and for five months he followed all the stages of the growing season, from its beginning to the harvest. He watched the threshers from dawn to midnight and captured, with his camera lens, everything that his artistic eye moved him. The workers in their t-shirts "baking" under the sun, working next to and on top of the machines, shoveling with their niches and raincoats in the rain, moving in the deep darkness with their galoshes and barefoot on the sharp grains of salt, gathering foam.
The exhibition, which includes 60 black and white and color framed photographs, will be inaugurated on Saturday, October 8, 2022, at 8 p.m. on the upper floor of the Historical Museum "Diexodos" in the Holy City of Messolonghi and will run until Sunday, October 23.
It is reminded that no special individual invitations will be sent out for the exhibition and it will be open daily (except Wednesday & Thursday) with free admission from 11 am to 1.30 pm, and on Friday weekends, except for the morning hours, the exhibition will also be open in the afternoons from 18:30 to 20:00.
Polydefkis Asonitis
Polydefkis Asonitis was born in 1956. He has a Master’s degree and he is teaching image semiotics. He studied photography in the “Photographic Circle”, having Platonas Rivellis as a tutor, in the “Workshop of study and application of photography”, of Dimitris Chliberos and in Photokinisi of George Pasias. He taught Photography in the Technological Institution of Athens, in the departments of Photography, Graphic and Art Conservation. He’s held many exhibitions in Greece and abroad. His photographs and articles on photography have been published in magazines and photo albums. He often collaborates with PHOTOgraphos magazine.
