A game of challenge and reason
Collective Exhibition at Cacoyannis Foundation
Athens, GR
Curator: Chatzisavva E
Wooden object
Spring 2014
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This art piece is conceived and developed in the framework of a collective exhibition of selected architects and artists in Athens. The theme and starting point of the exhibition is a film by Michalis Cacoyannis, an accomplished Greek theatre and film director,
called “The day the fish came out”.
The film explores themes of governmental conspiracy, environmental destruction, life in secluded island communities, and touristic exploitation through any means. The final outcome is catastrophic, bringing the story to the point of no return. This sense of inevitability, as a product of human greed and the constant tendency towards violence, is illustrated within this piece.
A game of reason and challenge. An object, seemingly static, comprised by smaller parts, which in reality can turn and unfold by will of the player, in an effort to reveal itself in its entirety and then close back in. The rules of the game are simple. One turn horizontally, one vertically. However, quickly the player realizes that what they are striving for is, in fact, unattainable. The box will never completely unfold. Its content, in truth, is the object itself. A game without victory, a dead end that, like entropy, cannot lead back to where it started from. Like the heroes in the movie, the player comes face to face with the irreversible flow of events and the law of cause and effect.