Mnemosyne Grove — Georgia Metaxas. Published by Perimeter Editions.
A small selection from Georgia Metaxas’ Mnemosyne Grove was exhibited last year in our exhibition Walking Through the Darkness. It's her first book, but Metaxas has been making beautiful and smart work for a long time. The book is located in multiple places, and weaves multiple stories together; sites of familial significance in Greece, journeying to an olive grove bequeathed to her mother’s family in Palairos – where the ancient trees, each named after a woman in the maternal line, have stood sedately for five-hundred years – and to Ithaca, the island where her father’s family originated, before migrating to Australia on a British steamship in 1901. This book is small, delicate and at the same time expansive and powerfully emotional.
Daniel Boetker-Smith is the Director of Australia's Centre for Contemporary Photography. He is a writer, publisher, educator, and photographer, and is the founder of the Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive.