visual artist
Rain-fed Plants
July 2017
EN
Year: 2017
Variable Video Installation. (Indicative dimensions 2m x 2m x 1.5m)
2 bales of straw, 2 bunches of clover, savory, oregano, rusty iron tiller bolts, a sickle, a rake, a canister, a blue neon lamp (1.20m), a PC, speakers, a projector.
Sound: From Nature
Smell: Hay and freshly cut clover.
The harsh but fascinating summer…
The work “Ta Kserika” was created in the context of the project “Summer – Relentless and Scythe-Bearing”, a theme based on the respective text of Odysseus Elytis from his book “Carte Blanche”.
Here is a short excerpt that shows how the poet sees the Greek summer and how he condenses its image into the description “Relentless and Scythe-Bearing”:
“…Little by little, at the height of summer, the light makes Greece vanish. It absorbs the islands, overpowers the seas, renders the skies useless. You no longer see mountains or trees; you see no cities nor earth and water. Everything melts out of sight.
Man, drunk with light, is a mere dark shadow –a shadow that grows, disproportionally protected by his own sacrifice.
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As if the world has found its blessed end in this absolute equality.
And yet this very light, this sparkling, flooding light that effaces Greece at midday, restores it again at sunset…”
(Odysseus Elytis, Carte Blanche, Ikaros Editions)
The specific edition includes the prose works of Odysseus Elytis (1972-1995)
