Strangers in close proximity
The series Strangers in Close Proximity is a reference to the text of Zygmunt Bauman, 2003, City of Fears City of Hopes, it includes a collection of sculptures forming an installation of variable dimension that was presented at St. Lucas Gallery in Brussels, Belgium and at Acropolis at the Bottom exhibition (2018) at ASFA, Athens.
‘City and social change are almost synonymous. Change is the quality of city life and the mode of urban existence. Change and city may, and indeed should, be defined by reference to each other. Why is it so, though? Why must this be so? It is common to define cities as places where strangers meet, remain in each other’s proximity, and interact for a long time without stopping being strangers to each other...’
Strangers in close proximity / 2018 / oil pastel on tied collection of urban fragments
Strangers in close proximity / Installation view at 'Acropolis at the bottom' /ASFA /Athens 2018
They were, those people, a kind of solution / 2017 / spray paint and oil pastel on urban fragments tied with denim cloth
On this collection of found urban fragments is written the last two lyrics of C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” [-And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians? – They were, those people, a kind of solution.]. The fragments are tied with denim cloth. I used denim as something more human, in contrast with the other objects here, that people only reflect on. In my viewpoint, denim as a material that touch the skin, has a different memory in it.
