Myths of Everyday Life
Between urban landscapes veiled in nighttime stillness and deep warm greens surrounded by diffuse light, an unspoken secret seems to be hanging in the air. In these photographs by Kostas Maros, clues can be found, without our knowing what we are looking for: a white chair is almost hidden under low-hanging leaves, with whoever once sat there completely absent — only the traces of an action refer to a "before". In another image, a wire-mesh fence runs through the rampant green of a tropical forest; the purpose of its presence is called into question beside the sublime power of a tree trunk reaching high into the air. The testimony of a photograph cannot illuminate the poetic dialogue taking place between the streetlight above a streetsign and the soft shining of a table lamp on a windowsill. It seems as if nobody can speak here, with no faces or gestures visible as reactions to help understand what is happening. But even without knowing the potential narrative of each picture, we still participate in moods whose communication beyond the edges of the images is both vague and defined. There is something cinematic about Kostas Maros's photographs, even though they are all separate moments that have been given permanence. While the establishing shot that first introduces a film's specific setting offers the viewer a location within a specific sphere of action, these photographs draw the viewer into a pictorial world of undefined feelings.
