250X370X250 cm
Wood, metal, print, paint and polyethylene
This Current Between Us
2022
Historic Steam Electric Station of PPC, Neo Faliro, Athens
Curators: Panos Giannikopoulos | Georgia Liapi
Concept, research, coordination: Eleni Kalara
Collection: Public Power Corporation S.A.
Allusive sketches, perhaps is a mnemonic work; desire has penetrated its surfaces, and by breaking up the shapes it has freed memory. Fragmentary parts, fragments that hint the whole from which they originate, mostly two-dimensional, sometimes suspended and sometimes precariously supported, dead and phobic, prompt a grimy reading.
Read MoreEach is a result of many the same, while the many, through a stressful repetition become exhausted. A dance is insinuated, a memory of desire and a burn mark on the body before being marked dead or vanished on a tainted surface near the space contaminated by lignite.
The oversized firefly – a body of many bodies – hangs anchored as fantasy, desire or memory of a hysterical dance or a rave party. Behind it looms the black dust and carbon dioxide. Yellow: eyes, body and wings are a swarm of impregnated light.
Allusive sketches, perhaps emerged through the months-long condition of continuous threats, the systematic cultivation of fear, and the anxiety of upcoming announcements of multiple crises and bans.