Clea Christakos-Gee
Embracing the material elements of photography, Christakos-Gee makes intimate and diaristic images. The artist’s collages harvest fragments from vintage magazines creating visual metaphors and symbols of desire. Her collaborative and personal photographic projects capture relationships, such as the connections between women artists in her family across generations.
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Chrysalis, from Diary, 2020
Chrysalis (with background), from Diary, 2020
Devon at the Garage, 2021
You’re the Spitting Image of My Woman Image, from In the Third, 2018
Once a Body is a Mother, from In the Third, 2018
From The Garden, from In the Third, 2018
Process image, 2018
Alicia Adjusting, 2022
Locket Piece, from A Piece A seed A spread, 2020
Ben Blinking, from A Piece A seed A spread, 2020
Clea Christakos-Gee (b.1997) is a visual artist holding a BFA in Photography Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University. Her practice is grounded in analogue photography, portraiture and collage. Her lens-based work is often collaborative and styled, blurring the boundaries between staged and documentary. Inspired by loved ones and her local creative community she is drawn to capturing the dreamy, uncanny qualities of personal memory and relationships.
In 2019 her series In the Third was exhibited at the Alliance Français gallery as a part of the CONTACT Photography Festival and she was a recipient of the Magenta Flash Forward Award for Emerging Artists. In 2020 her solo show A piece A seed A spread was exhibited at The Image Centre.