The enormous black artwork, covering a big part of the building's front, was leaving no doubts. This was not going to be an exhibition easy to understand or even to accept. But art is not always pleasant. At least not in a recreational way. Some of the greatest masterpieces have arise through the darkest thoughts of their creators.
In this case, the artist herself is a friend and we would have gone to see her work anyway :)
And of course, take a few photographs too!
In the picture below, @traisto is about to enter the Municipal Art Gallery of Agios Nikolaos, Crete and the surreal world of Persephone Nikolakopoulou, named “Skin_Basement02".
The old building was transformed by a combination of paintings, video and installations that were giving us a glimpse into the artist’s mind. I’ll share some of her own words below:
Sometimes seen as a cocoon
(ready to create new life),
sometimes seen as a piece of “slaughtered” meat that has just been hanged
(a recent past, still alive).
I wonder if it stands as an independent finalised project or it is just a mere stage in the process of creating something new, a pause in time.
Is its content what matters?
Or the image it carries?
The encapsulation of a process?
Or its independent presence?
It is impossible to capture this project accurately with photography. Two dimensions are very few for a work that extends through space and time in a truly unconventional way. The video performance, the eerie atmosphere of the, wrapped in plastic, house, the oversized paintings, they are all elements that you have to be there, in order to fully grasp it.
In the picture above, I left the camera on the tripod and entered the scene myself, as a point of comparison to the size of the paintings and the room.
It has been a long time since that day, to remember exactly what it felt like being in there, observing but at the same time being part of the installation. Actually it was in August of 2017, a few months before I start blogging here and share my captures with you. So this shooting remained forgotten into my hard drive until today that I stumbled upon it while I was looking for something else.
And I figured that some of you might be interested in seeing it!
As the dusk was coming, I stepped outside for the last picture of the day at the entrance of the building before I put the camera back in its bag and go to the balcony were the artist and a few more friends were having a glass of wine!
Cheers!
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The first thing that came to mind is that the mess of leaving those dark parts and yet so full of lights on a canvas, as if the artist were pouring himself into his work, is a process that must be kept clean... that's why the plastics. Surgical precision, like Dexter Morgan.
I guess it is either that or the representation of a cocoon that she wants to put us inside. I can't really remember the talk we had afterwards, it's been so long ago and I am terrible at interpretation of art works :)
Hahaha... I was joking about the Dexter Morgan thing. It's just that it's a TV show I liked 😅. Makes sense about the cocoon.
Yes, I know Dexter. I got the joke, although it may not be so irrelevant after all :)
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Hi Stefanos. Thanks for sharing this very interesting exhibit. You are right art and ours and other peoples thoughts and ideas are not always pleasant or comfortable.
Hi Sara!
I am not going often to art exhibitions but I thought that this one was a nice fit for the community :)