About

The work of Christos Dikeakos investigates the archaeological and historical through photography. As a first generation member of the Vancouver photo-conceptual group, he offers a critique of urban history, topography, depicting cultural aspects of inhabitation and the city in a state of flux. His Sites and Place Names series in Athens, Berlin, Saskatoon and Vancouver track significant cultural shifts and open discussions around ideological contexts. In these pictures, a backdrop of contemporary habitations highlights the multi-linguistic narratives and memories of urban typologies.

Dikeakos produced a touring exhibition for the McMaster Museum of Art, unpacking 40 years’ worth of drawings, sculptures, and photography on the French American artist Marcel Duchamp. This was followed in 2014 with a solo show Nature Morte at the Kelowna Art Gallery, picturing the seasonal paradigms of his family’s apple orchard in the southern Okanagan Valley, and a solo exhibition showed in 2015 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. NEXT: Christos Dikeakos, a series of large scale photographs of West Coast Pacifica, took on the idea that there exists conductive resonances in both cultural and natural spaces. His most recent solo show Christos Dikeakos: The World as an Open Studio was a survey exhibition curated by Hercules Papaioannou at the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, in conjunction with the 8th Thessanoliki Biennale of Contemporary Art in Greece.