"SOME PERFECT SINGS OF HETEROTOPIAS"
(working title)
Ministry of Culture
Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art
The First Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemprorary Art “Heterotopias”
Curators: Catherine David,
Maria Tsantsanoglou,
jan-Erik Lundstrom
May 2007
International Artist Workshop, Archaeological Museum of
Thessaloniki
Curators:
Syrago Tsiara, Areti Leopoulou
Concept:
Hetero-Utopias as an art object.
"If I weren’t Alexander the
Great, I would have been Diogenes"
The initial heterotopias are expressions
of the loneliness of a human being. God created a man lonely,
a as a single spiritual space. The man was in fact the very
first heterotopias. The rest of heterotopias were already
created by men. Men gave these heterotopias names and symbols.
These geometric forms were not chosen by
accident. They are at the core of many “gerb”
symbols, and contractions. I’m focusing on inner,
spiritual heterotopias rather than sub-social ones. The
question of the meaning of masculinity is a question that
men ask themselves over the course of their life. He finds
pride in being masculine and tries to stand up to his self-expectations
and inner ideals about masculinity and manhood and search
for fame and physical strength. He creates limits which
he sets for himself, and which can even affect his physique
and appearance. The woman also becomes a “slave”
of her beauty and femininity. What does woman’s loneliness
mean? Every woman deals with it differently.
Love creates its own ideal romantic limits
and boundaries. Family – creates their own. Responsibility
and questions of life– their own. Therefore, conscientious
life of a person become a cycle of liberations and enslavements,
where s/he exits one set of boundaries only to be locked
inside a different set or boundaries. These are red lines
that he creates by himself and which he has no control over.
Thus, Diogenes fond his freedom in a barrel
where he lived for years, while Alexander the Great had
become a “slave” of his ideals having to concur
the whole world.
Description:
The work consists of five elements. Each panel – are
of perfect geometric forms, which over the course of human
history were used as symbols of various ideologies. Inside,
one can see human figures encapsulated inside red frames.
These forms are installed as a cycle of life of a single
person. 1. Inception 2. youth 3. love 4. old age and the
death, which destroys any frames.
Media: wood,
canvas, acryl, plastic.
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