The portraits presented by Kyriakos Tarassidis are part of an ongoing
body of work, journeying through analogue formats and our subjective
internal worlds.

The process of Polaroid Emulsion Lifts offers new opportunities to
manipulate the image. The fragility of this process highlights the
duality of freedom in creation; the excitement of shaping something
that isn’t yet, in all its unforeseen possibilities, and the fear of
destroying what is.

The moment after the image has been peeled off of its original carrier
and floats contactless in the basin reminds me of the uncertainty of
any transitional state.

The thrill of manipulating the image beyond its usual constraints is
unavoidably met with the anxiety of destroying it in the process. The
space between origin and destination, between the familiar and the
possible, is a space of pure serendipity and creative potential,
emphasizing both the precarity and power of any vulnerable state.