Excerpt from the Introduction "About man and animal" On the new works of Dimitris Yeros by Peter Weiermair Director of the Rupertinum Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Salzburg.

I do not know anyone in the field of Photography who unites both life forms in such an innovative and fascinating way in a surrealistic picture-book world.

In Yeros, there is, in the first place, the confrontation of the static nude with the animal and, consequently, the reflection of the categories naked/dressed, natural/artificial, as well as of the terms: rationality and instinct, beauty and sensuality. The second group deals with pictures that might be understood almost as a paraphrase of Alfred Hitchcock's Birds. What constitutes this attraction for butterflies and snails, that emanates from the surprised, naked, even subdued, victims?

The animals confront man in a diverse form and function. At times almost emblematically as if in a children's book (animal/man), then again in a poetic/narrative manner in a sense of standardizing man, where the animal is humanized or a certain animal determines a certain type of man. Moreover, there is this type of picture that uses the black humour of Surrealism to stress the weird and menacing side of the animal. Wherever, of course, there is contact between animal and man – the ethereal touch of the butterfly or the slimy trace of the snail – the erotic and sensual element also plays a metaphorical part.

Yeros operates with associations and analogies. In his new photographs the artist dwells in a field that underlines his inclination towards the poetry of the fable.