Mutualism (βιολογική αμοιβαιότητα).2017
The term Mutualism is used in Biology to describe the relationship between dissimilar organisms from which we are simultaneously been affected. The concepts of the safe community, of clustering and symbiosis are encounter by liquidity and social automation practices. At the same time each individual movement produce, gradually, complex parallel situations, that affect all the elements. People’s displacement, the scale, the changes in relationships, the communities’ formation that transformed, the symbiotic interactions and the data relationships that they carry, are the key concepts of the video. The social structure is defined into an unstable and unclear boundary and it represents more a meeting platform against the terror of social isolation..
video duration 05:28'' |
Posthuman Transition.2017
This video comments the regeneration of the human body, through a digital automated process. The alteration of the human figure reflected in a continuous change, on which all the details progressively removed. The sound serves as a threshold of change to change.
Basic human qualities transformed into invisible. Human plasma transcends its own qualities but is still defined as a human being. In this sense, the transition between human and post-human can be seen as a continuation and not as a new event. The redesign of the human organism between human and technical intelligence does not exclude the humanity, but it continues to exist in a different condition. |
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Crossing Βorder - becoming European.2016
Greek Borders. Refugees and immigrants are hiding behind trees and bushes lurking for the border guards' movements, looking for the moment that they’ll escape their attention. They squeeze their few belongings into tiny backpacks and they wearing one piece of clothing over the other, in order not to carry many things in their backpacks and get tired from the weight and the walking.When they cross the border, they throw away the worn clothes and keep the best, trying to escape from the suspicious eyes of the locals and the border police. They are struggling to create a new image that will not respond to that of the immigrant or of the refugee, in order to avoid control, to identify their self inside the construction of a new identity which is modeled from the new country’s cultural and national context by achieving a relevance of external characteristics in their very first step and move on. The clothes become an expression elements and the body becomes an integral part of the effort for this new identity.
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Garden of Eden: entering dangerous zone.2018
The idea of the garden is at the heart of the secret Persian literature, symbolizing a place of spiritual transformation, while at the same time it refers to exile and independence.
According to the book of Genesis in the Old Testament of the Bible, the Garden of Eden was a land paradise, the home for Adam and Eve, the first man and woman. The myth wants Eve leading to the first sin and states her responsible for the Adam’s fall of Eden. The video is a comment on this myth, with Eva being presented as a figure that hits the release bell without trying to cheat, but seeking the exit. |
Curiosity Cabin.2023
The project is a thematic photographic index without linear sequence and hierarchy of images. It is an visual document distanced from any additional information through a repetitive, serial listing of elements that represent reality as signs. The total file with 154 slides could be the archival material of a fictional science where in its heterogeneity it could function as a universal experience. Without additional explanatory texts, the work consists of individual banal and simplistic images on 35mm film slide projection |
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