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3. PastPresentFuture The time project The project is about life and considers human life beyond lifetime. This artwork is exploring the topic of reincarnation and visualizes a series of incarnations of the artist. by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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5. PastPresentFuture The final space required for installation is approx. (ca. 36-15 m x 2-3 m). The artwork contains 12 black and white and one colored, large, white and translucent chiffon banners, each printed on one side with a realistic drawing of a life - sized figure (print measures ca. 200 cm x 90 cm, fixed size). which is visible from both sides of banner. All the banners are connected with a red thread made of textile garnets and hanged with wooden clothespins on clotheslines stretched through the room. All drawings are available also as 1/10 limited edition of fine art prints. 2011, Berlin by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

6. PastPresentFuture What is the meaning of life and what is hereafter? These constant and basic questions of mankind are being philosophically analyzed in a very personal and artistic manner, without subjecting to any dogmas. by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

7. PastPresentFuture Philosophical systems and religions formulate suitable answers, but those still remain a matter of confidence and belief. For the numberless followers of the Hinduistic and Buddhistic teachings, of mystic groups and pagan or shamanic cults, of the Gnostic teachings as well as for several ancient religions including early Christianity, reincarnation has been a meaningful fact in this universal cycle of becoming and passing. by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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9. PastPresentFuture Although many cases from all over the world are known, where people hold strange memories that do not correspond to their current existence, in some of that cases the traces even lead to the data of historical persons, science still does not accept this as evidences proofing the existence of reincarnation. by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

10. PastPresentFuture Yet science in the fields of astrophysics and quantum mechanics is lately asking a lot more of fascinating questions about that topic. by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

11. PastPresentFuture This artwork suggests a controversial discussion. by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

12. PastPresentFuture I was socialized in Greek, German and European culture as a whole. As a positive and creative person, I began very early to show interest in art. That led me directly to history of art and culture, to religious studies and philosophy. by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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14. PastPresentFuture Over time I developed several obsessions, like the irrational enthusiasm for certain places or cultural eras, as well as the apparent naturalness of some ideologies. Felt convictions and absurd aversions join with fragments of memories, from the slightest presentiment to visions in movie quality. by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

15. PastPresentFuture The question about the nature of personal identity is being asked by this project. The research looks for the origins of these memories and explores the possibility of reincarnation being a fact. by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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17. PastPresentFuture For a certain period of my childhood I was continuously drawing particular scenes and I was experiencing them over and over again. For years to come I held the confidence that it was all a product of an active childish imagination. Until I gained some knowledge of history of arts and suddenly realized that specific details could not be traced to any of my childhood. So how did I know about them? by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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19. PastPresentFuture Then I started the still ongoing process to work out all those information fragments that I had collected through memories and different kinds of past life regressions and I began to compare them systematically with historic facts. by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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21. PastPresentFuture On that basis I created 13 visualized individuals to represent my incarnations. They are all 12 connected together as well as with the 13.th figure which is visualizing my current lifetime, through a red life thread which is the entity, the consciousness or the soul. by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

22. PastPresentFuture The hanging in series suggests our sense of time being linear and continuous and is questioning truth from another point of view. The clotheslines from which the artworks are hanging are marking the time and space coordinates of the particular lifetimes. by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

23. PastPresentFuture The images of these individuals on the chiffon banners are referring to the bodies that the person changes as he or she would do with an old piece of clothing. The textile factor is also used to communicate the feeling of an era to the exhibition visitors by showing the visualized persons wearing historical correct clothing. by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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25. PastPresentFuture The incarnations Profiles 1. Egypt about 2000 - 1800 B.C. male Egyptian name unknown, wealthy merchant and warrior ability to write and read referring to the Egyptian gods reached nearly the age of 60 by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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28. PastPresentFuture The incarnations Profiles 2. Nubia about 1800 - 1700 B.C. male Nubian from the Noba tribe name unknown solder, salesman sea trade enterprises initiated to the mysteries of the Bastet cult reached nearly the age of 55 by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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31. PastPresentFuture 3. Thera Santorini, Greece about 1700 - 1600 B.C female Minoan name unknown wife and mother successful sea trade enterprises textile merchant referring to the great goddess Qerasija/Rhea by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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34. PastPresentFuture 4. Ithaki / Ithaca, Malanion / Melanion Island in the Ionian sea, Greece about 1550 - 1450 B.C. late Minoan period, female Minoan name unknown priestess of Artemis the goddess Rea/Qerasija lives in the area of the temple among the priesthood by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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37. PastPresentFuture 5. Olympia Greece about 800 - 700 B.C. male Mycenaean name unknown warrior creative production of goods initiated to the mysteries of local cults, Zeus/Hera by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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40. PastPresentFuture 6. Delos Greece about 700 - 600 B.C. female Ionian name unknown priestess of Artemis diplomatic missions for the military authorities by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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43. PastPresentFuture 7. Eleusis Greece about 600 - 500 B.C. female Ionian name unknown wife and mother, early widow noble background suffered a great loss initiated to the mysteries of Demeter at Eleusis by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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46. PastPresentFuture The incarnations Profiles 8. Athens Greece about 500 - 400 B.C. female Athenian name unknown wife and mother diplomatic backstage activities due to family position in society initiated to the mysteries of Demeter at Eleusis by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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49. PastPresentFuture The incarnations Profiles 9. Dion Greece about 360 - 310 B.C. male Macedonian name Kalinikos warrior by profession background with strong family position in society diplomatic missions artistic interests initiated to the Orphic and Kabbiric mysteries by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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52. PastPresentFuture The incarnations Profiles 10. Burgundy France about 1360 - 1420 female from Burgundy name Elisabeth Dame, conventional life on court wife and mother good social contacts due to family position in society Christian widow by 30 reached nearly the age of 45 by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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55. PastPresentFuture The incarnations Profiles 11. Beaumont Beaumont-sur-Oise, near Paris, France about 1707 - 1765 female from France name Augustine, born as de Beaumont family is old nobility, still privileged but lack of power lives a happy, secure and quiet life in the house she was born wife and mother of two children mastering the matters of the Household and garden profound Botanic knowledge applications of healing herbs and perfumes reached nearly the age of 55 by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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58. PastPresentFuture The incarnations Profiles 12. Paris France about 1840 - 1890 female from France name Constance wife and mother house wife lived in a neoclassical apartment in Paris Christian writing poems and performing music for family and guest in private, The house was destroyed suddenly by the gas pipe explosion by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

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61. PastPresentFuture The incarnations Profiles 13. Corinth Greece born 1966 female Greek and German citizen name Alessandra living and working in Berlin and Athens as Visual Artist by Alessandra Dimitra CONCEPT

62. PastPresentFuture Born 1966, in Corinth - GR Lives and works in Berlin and Athens, as Fine Artist and Communication Designer Studies 96-97 J. G. University Mainz, further studies in Philosophy, Education Science, Ethnology 91-95 Institute of Fine Arts at J. Gutenberg University Mainz, studies of Painting, Dipl. Fine Arts 87-91 University of Applied Science Wiesbaden, studies of Communication Design 85-87 University of Applied Science Wiesbaden, Studies of Interior Architecture 84-85 T.E.I. Athens, Graphics 82-84 K.E.T.E. Athens, Dipl. Interior Decoration Membership Since 10 El - Drac, European Contemporary Art Since 99 Member of BBK, German National Association of Artists, IAA 95 - 96 Member of AULERS MÜHLE art_design, Rhein-Main Since 1996 Foundation of ORPHEAS art & design GbR, Berlin 94-95 Member of GESTALTER, Wiesbaden C. VITAE by Alessandra Dimitra

63. PastPresentFuture Art Instruction 11 Media Academy Berlin, Dpt. Media-technology, instructor for Visual Communication and Colour 10 University Paderborn, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Dpt. of Art Studies, Music & Textile Design, instructor for Painting 08-10 Silicon Studio Berlin at ITW Institute, Dpt. Graphic-design, instructor for Visual Communication and Colour 99-07 Design Academy Berlin, Dpt. Communication Management, instructor for Visual Communication 99-03 BBW Institute of Berlin, Dpt. Media Design, instructor for Visual Communication and History of Arts 98-02 Design Academy Berlin, Dpt. Visual Communication, instructor for Colour and Design Methodology 98-02 Berlin, Alessandra Dimitra Fine Art Studio, Art Instructor for Painting and Drawing 88-89 Wiesbaden, Art Instructor by Alessandra Dimitra C. VITAE

64. PastPresentFuture Exhibitions 12 Kythera, Follow your Art Gallery, Ravenna, Battaglia Project; 11 Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Seoul, National Museum of Contemporary Art; Basse Rentgen – Lorraine, Château de Preisch; Toulouse, Val Ceravolo Project; Athens, Melanithros; Thessaloniki, IFA Gallery; Düsseldorf, Ballhaus; Bonn, Frauenmuseum; 10 Jena, Gallery Pack of Patches; Santiago de Compostella, Galician Centre of Contemporary Art; London, ICA & Chelsea College of Art and Design; Penang - USM, Penang State Art Gallery & Tuanku Fauziah Museum and Gallery / 09 Baltimore, Arts for Global Development & PACOJC; 09 - 02 Florence, Creativa / 08 Austin, Americas Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Prints; Mount Clemens-MI, Anton Art Center; Washington, 9th Street Gallery; Santiago de Compostella, Roteiro de Creacion Contemporanea; Washington, Artomatic 2008 & Sewall-Belmont Museum; Den Haag, Marcellos Art Factory; Beijing, Red Man Art Competition / 07 Metz, Gallery Faux Mouvement; Völklingen, Cultural World Heritage Centre; Luxemburg, Forum dárt contemporain; San Francisco, The International Museum of Women; Beijing, Master Cup International Cartoon and Illustration Biennial / 06 Chicago, NAG Society; Chicago, Marx-Saunders Gallery; Chaves, Festival Festimage; Iowa, Biennial Exhibition; San Francisco, Ethical Metalsmiths; San Francisco, The International Museum of Women; London, Association for Contemporary Jewellery conference / by Alessandra Dimitra C. VITAE

65. PastPresentFuture Exhibitions 05 Beijing: Jianluan Art House, Natural Culture Centre; Nisyros, Rhea-Land-Art-Projects / 04 Milan, Project room / 03 New York, N.Y.B. Centre Gallery; Healdsburg, Plaza Arts Gallery; Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Kunstverein / 02 Santa Rosa, Sonoma Museum of Visual Arts / 00 Berlin, OP Project room/ 99 Bad Homburg, Art Gallery Artlantis / 98 Idar-Oberstein, Art in Barracks; Rüdesheim-on-Rhine, Rathaus; Cottbus, Technical University / 97 Frankfurt-on-Main, Greek National Bank; London, S. Mumberson School of Fine Arts; Darmstadt, Heag Hall; Bingen-on-Rhine, Art Hall; Rastatt, Barracks / 95 Mainz: IfBK; Mainz, Land - Art Exhibition; House of Parliament of Rhineland Palatinate / 94 Mainz, Old Brick Factory; Mainz, Cultural Festival Rhineland Palatinate / 93 Mainz, IfBK; Mainz, Institute for Nuclear Physics; Mainz, Cultural Festival Rhineland Palatinate / 92 Mainz, Institute for Fine Arts / 90 Mainz, Kirschgarten Gallery / by Alessandra Dimitra C. VITAE

66. PastPresentFuture Alessandra Dimitra Dipl. Fine Artist & Communication Designer Fehrbelliner Straße 50 D - 10119 Berlin - Mitte Fon: 030 44 050 979 Fax: 030 644 92 789 E-Mail: info@alessandradimitra.de Internet: www.alessandradimitra.de CONTACT by Alessandra Dimitra