visual artist
Minerart Project:
An action of real political love
April 2016
Installation.
Variable dimensions [indicative (7X2X2) m] Materials: Containers, darkness, sound, smell, mineral and wet soil, recyclable materials, neon lights, note, black torn photo of Queen Elisabeth stuck over the photograph of an Indian miner. The sound is made by me. Registered, processed and edited hits in sheet metal and stones. In these are also involved sounds of drums (only) from song "Take five" (1959) of Dave Brubeck
EN
The sociopolitical one-way path of wealth and poverty may be best represented in the journey of a valuable mineral. The confined, dark environment of the mine, the dazzling shine of the minerals and the predetermined course of the precious stones from the basements of social stratification to the capital domination above the ground stress vividly the stereotypically predefined axes of our lives.
This cooperative project was realized with the support of Athens University on the premises of the Mineralogy Museum, on the University Campus of Zografou.
The forecourt area enabled me to do something I had been dreaming of for a long time: exhibit my work outside the museum/showrooms.
So I “set up” the container, which was part of my art installation and had been offered free to me by the company “Mouzaliotis Containers”, with all the joy of an “extra-institutional achievement”.
