Division (Kunsthaus)

Petros Chrisostomou photographs exuberant assemblages of objects in luxurious interiors, such as galleries and museums. His works with shoes lend themselves to a new sculptural language, and as objects they are socially loaded with reference to vanity. Christosomou's photographs become the field for mixing the high and the low-brow, mass culture and genre painting, the luxurious and the expendable, as indications of social class distinctions. At the same time, the relations between the real and the imaginary in his oeuvre are a commentary on the mediated images of contemporary mass media that distort the natural and immediate dimension of our relation to reality, determining, among other things, the conditions for viewing and receiving art.


Petros Chrisostomou (born London, 1981) lives and works in New York. He was a resident on the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, as well as the winner of The Red Mansion Art Prize, where he worked for a concentrated period of time in Beijing, China. His work has been included in public and private collections worldwide.