HERE WE ARE…HOME AT LAST#3, 2020-24

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The work consists of 16 tiles painted with iridescent pigments and interference colours. These are specialized pigments that produce color-changing effects by simultaneously reflecting and refracting light, depending on the viewing angle. As the viewer moves towards and around the object, they have a slightly changing visual impression. Furthermore, the effect produced by these pigments is difficult to reproduce as it is outside the CMYK and RGB spectrum used in printing, photography and video. Thus, the presence of the work becomes more stable than its photographic or cinematic reproduction. Ia a way, the work is revealed only when the viewer is present.

The imagery - clouds and stains with fluid boundaries - has cosmic connotations and also refers to natural phenomena on a macroscopic or microscopic scale. This coexists with depictions of various constellations. The drawing of constellations, the mapping of the sky, is an attempt to construct meaning through the connection and projection of distant stars on a symbolic level of representations. Constellations do not exist, they are desires, projections, interpretations.

While the image gives the impression of a print, it is entirely handmade. The work has also a mildly immersive effect, functioning as a hole in space that absorbs the viewer while destabilizing visual perception and conceptual understanding. A number of reversals: up/down, handmade/digital, immaterial/material, original/copy, sky/earth, geometric/geological have a destabilizing effect while the title Ηere we are…Ηome at last, talks of homelessness and -ironically- of every utopian effort.

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