Damp cloth of gray blur

2023

exhibition at Living Room

Athens, Greece

 

the signs, the patterns, the motifs, the forms, the shapes

 

carved in stone, clay and wood, painted on walls, ceilings, plates, vases, pots, woven into carpets and clothes, poured into metal and glass, arranged into mosaics and floortiles, drawn to the manuscripts

 

by the ancient romans and greeks, etruscs and mycanaeans, people who passed by, those who moved here and those who moved away, people from orient, from north, from occident, from south, those who carried their signs with them

 

passing years, decades, centuries, milleniums

drag the matter within it’s currents

swallow it, wash it

and sometimes

something floats to the surface

of that gray blur

 

eye catches a symbol or two

a repeat

across the findings from here and there

from one side and another

there might be a line

that everywhere is the same

 

a line of black rust

a blur of iron liquer

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Textiles do not stand the test of time, and most of what is known about antique textiles has been discovered on other materials, such as painted on ceramics or engraved in stone. In addition, different materials seem to reflect each other's stories in turn, and the line between one and another seems to blur. The change is imperceptible - one material becomes another over an immense amount of time, and the trace of human culture on it is shorter than a moment.

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the cloth hanging

is still damp

from floating in there