LIFE CAPTURED – ELENI NAKOPOULOS
Thought-provoking artist Eleni Nakopoulos will exhibit her artworks entitled Life Captured at the Danks Street Art Gallery in Sydney.
Most of the exhibition will be centered around the ethical and moral debate of keeping animals in captivity.
Nakopoulos says that the idea first came to her when she took her son to the zoo.
“I took my son to the zoo and every time we went it would always feel eerie and uncomfortable. The experience provoked the feeling that these animals should be roaming in the wild and not held in captivity,” she says.
Nakopoloulos added that much of work was also inspired by recent news events.
“People are killing giraffes in public and now they are killing sharks and it just made me think – ‘what are we doing?’” she says.
The exhibition Life Captured is designed to encapsulate the concept that the way we are treating animals is wrong, by displaying them in their natural environment.
“I tried to show the beauty of the animal and not the captivity. Although, you can see an element of the captivity, I tried to portray that animals deserve to be here on this planet, just as we do,” says Nakopoulos. (JN)
Mar 4-15, Depot II Gallery, 2 Danks St, Waterloo, free, 2danksstreet.com.au
BY JEMMA NOTT
