Your name
Mari Masouridou
Place of birth
Athens, Greece
Place where you live now
Athens
3 words to describe you
Persistent, open-minded, animal lover
Why do you take pictures?
I take pictures to feed my need for expression and often to escape from reality. 
Where do you get your inspiration?
Life is my biggest inspiration. My art is inspired by things that happened in my life and the way I reflect on them. I also get inspired by my favorite films, dreams, folk tales, mythology, science fiction and nature.
Who are your influences?
I think for me it is more a factor of ‘what’ rather than ‘who’. I am influenced by the psychoanalytic process and the aesthetic philosophy of wabi sabi in the way that it suggests that beauty is hidden underneath the surface of what seems to be broken and the way it embraces simplicity, imperfection and decay. Some specific people whose work has influenced me are Rinko Kawauchi, David Cronenberg and H.P. Lovecraft.
What determines the subject matter you choose?
The things I experience and their impact on myself. 
What impact would you like your art to have?
I want it to be memorable to people and stay on their minds for some time after they’ve seen it. This way, hopefully it can be a part of their internal dialogue and play a part in how they see themselves and their lives. 
What artwork do you never get bored with?
The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski
Is there anything you want to add?
That would be all.

The Nameless Dread
Project statement

The Nameless Dread-a psychoanalytical term first introduced by Wilfred Bion-is an attempt to visually approach the dreadful feeling of emptiness and non-understandable anxiety, through a fictional and intellectual prism. While everyone remembers their childhood fears, it is not easy to understand this nameless dread that follows us in adulthood. By seeing the human mind as a cave swarming with odd beings, symbols and strange objects, most of them unconscious and unilluminated, photographs are used as a visual representation of the journey into the unknowable parts of consciousness and as projections of all the negative feelings I might have not been able to conceptualize as a child. The “Nameless Dread” is the entry into the cave, an imaginary re-entry into the womb of the mother, a place where thoughts go when they are forgotten.

See more by Mari Masouridou in A Visual Dialogue in issue #3 and in collab:co-op in issue #9

Mari Masouridou
@marimasouridou