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“The installation unfolds in space like a “drehbuch” (screenplay). Its plot is defined by an architectural construction, a text
and two video projections.
The artist´s organization of these elements points the viewer in a certain direction to follow the story.
Upon entering the installation, the viewer sees a small-scale video presenting a concrete building gradually mutating into
a shapeless mass.
The installation is dominated by a hermetically sealed cement construction, a cross between a minimalist architectural model
and a half-finished building to which the viewer has no access. Placed on the construction, the viewer can read a text
written in poetic and fragmented diary form and further sees a video projection giving a rotating shot of a family gathering.” 1
The work forwards questions concerning systems of order and discipline such as language, architecture, power, family,
darkness and light.
It highlights the death drive that penetrates those systems, the invisible aspect of their power, the apostrophic character
of their functions.
Architecture as an edifice not built, as a skeleton, as the weakening of  modernistic utopias.

1 From the Exh. Catalogue In Present Tense. Young Greek Artists, ed.Tina Pandi, Helenic Ministry of Culture, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, 2007.

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