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Green soap strategy

Oct 2015, Jan 2016

Video - installation.

Variable dimensions [indicative (2X2X2) m]

Materials: Green soap, smell, wooden soap dryer, two posters, video, audio.

EN

On October 20, 2015 until January 15, 2016 setting out my work Green soap Strategy as part of the project "Deferred action: adaptations of artistic radicalism" by Kostis Stafylakis, visual artist and Doctor of Political Science at the  “Contemporary Greek Art Institute”/iset, in Athens.The fact that this show is taking place at iset, following some research in the same place, has its own significance.The participants artists in this experiment were called upon to concentrate on ‘70s Greek art and use the ISET archive to conduct their own research.Their research aimed at tracing the role of these expressions in the historical context of their time.Ι set off the series Luna Park International (1965) of Chrisa Romanos. A Romanos collage contains many children’s faces surrounded by consumer goods. Ι focuse  on the theory of the “life cycle” of goods to repose a question that haunts her own past: “What is the life cicle of green soap from the old days to date?”The issue of advertising, sixty years after the work of Romanos, approached with an unfamiliar for that era fashion. A promotional video is integrated into a project and promoted through the work product. My artistic practice is not holding distances from daily practice and in this case frankly accepts the overwhelming superiority of the advertising and the sponsorship of ben efaction.............

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