"EKPHORA", 2013-2014
thesis exhibition
The installation entitled "ekphora", is based on the total documentation of an apartment in Florina (Greece) that had been used as my residence in the past. The word of the Greek title has two different meanings. The first one refers to the transportation of the dead to his/her burial site whereas the second is used as a synonym of expressing opinion or thought. The title is representative of the two these concepts as one. The first one is about the "catastrophe" that the creation of this archive demands and the second one about the capability that an archive gives with many different options of interpretation.
The purpose of this project is to visualize a representation of reality as far as it concerns communication in human behaviour. Each one of us chooses specific characteristics from someone else that directly concern him. The experience of the installation by the audience or the created narrative are, in reality, no different from the presentation of one's self image in an interpersonal relationship, in which a lot of parts are ignored and others receive huge importance. The audience is called to make up a new story about this place with the helping clues and to regain their self image through another person. This archive can create several new stories because of our subjective perception.
the installation's path creates four main stages in the space.
This stage comprises drawing, digital collages and several notes about the process and the place in which the archive was created. The blog gives a description of the process that was followed.
1st stage
"notes-blog"
This stage consists of a block of six pieces of work. These pieces picture objects which have lost their utility value after their removal from this space. Nevertheless, getting rid of them was felt to be an "archive error". Automatically this approach became part of the process.
2nd stage
"in between"
Exergue is the typographic part of this archive in list form. This part was named by the following abstract of "archive fever" -A Freudian Impression-[1]. (Derrida, 1996: p5)
According to a proven convention, the exergue plays with citation. To cite before beginning is to give the key through the resonance of a few words, the meaning or form of which ought to set the stage. In other words, the exergue consists in capitalizing on an ellipsis. In accumulating capital in advance and in preparing the surplus value of an archive. An exergue serves to stock in anticipation and to prearchive a lexicon which, from there on, ought to lay down the law and give the order, even if this means contenting itself with naming the problem, that is, the subject. {..} It is thus the first figure of an archive{..} [1] Jacques Derrida and Eric Prenowitz, 1995.Archive Fever.[pdf] Johns Hopkins university press. Available at < http://newsgrist.typepad.com/files/derrida-archive_fever_a_freudian_impression.pdf>[Accessed 16 March 2015]
3rd stage
"exergue"
This stage includes a composition of 50 digital prints on matte photographic paper. This part of work has a different approach through different places. The farthest view allows the total reading of the piece and the nearest one concludes to the unit. Every observer can make his personal frame or choose nonlinear an amount of visualized objects. This intellectual assortment is important for the activation of the archive.
4th stage
"archive"
Summary
