"heavy melon", 2018
Vary Peponi || ΒαρύΠεπόνι
“Heavy Melon” is an installation that depicts my experience of living in Den Helder. The title is a folk Greek saying that describes a person who can be considered difficult, 'heavy' in communication or unreachable. In this work “heavy melon” is an aspect of my attitude towards reality and rationality in my current daily life but also comments on how this attitude can be escalated in isolated social environments.
The installation is composed two pieces; a psychogeographic map and a video projection. The map titled “Black Pothole - Part III” is a visualization of the city of Den Helder created under filters of feelings and experience and made up by deconstructed photographs of my personal archive related to this locus, maps and trademarks of Den Helder; while it also carries a general sense of the country of Netherlands. In this representation, different shapes comprise different parts of the map in the following categories: myself, home, gallery, shitty, train station, inner fault journey, unreal: (with subcategories) psychedelics – surrealism – coast. The second piece is a video projection on a screen entitled “Committal” and represents the feeling of entrapment in small places or isolated societies but also the commitment to a self-preservative mindset. The video is essentially an alteration of scenes that represent hope, freedom and seclusion.
