A cherished childhood experience and how this can be used with regard to the splentour of TV-made video imagery was the initial idea for this event. For that reason my inspiration was TV programmes that, in order to provide up-to-date entertainment, present celebrities that relate personal information from their houses. While making it I could sense that as much as this homemade video aspired to televised status it stayed tied to a self completely homebound, ordinary, unglamorous but true. This delicate balance between the -always personal- depth of a memory and the self that it carries and the relentless flatness of televised imagery provided me with the framework where I revised the ever-eager TV modality for incidental yet bombshell disclosure and the modes of televised portraiture set aside for viewing celebrity privacy.
Nina Kotamanidou works with pop video culture using the medium's dynamics as the present-day opportunity to portray oneself immersed in contemporary status and has coined the neologism 'videoscopic' in order to delineate this possibility of seeing oneself through video culture generated manipulations and attitudes.
She has also worked with painting and handmade objects, always verging on areas where art meets the 'ordinary extraordinariness' of the everyday. Her work has been exhibited in Greece, UK, Spain and USA.
Currently she lives and works in Thessaloniki , Greece.