Evdokia Kyrkou
Is this the life we really want?, 2017
mixed media
ABOUT THE INSTALLATION (from her statement): The white waxed thread and its shadow plays a determining role in the installation. An attempt is made to capture visually every man's daily struggle, in order to raise concerns and questions such as: How do we handle the Thread of Life which sometimes interlocks into knots and other times it just unrolls. What really happens inside us? Is it perhaps our inner side (shadow) part of our reality?
Recommended by Dimitra Skandali
I find her work incredibly sensitive and fragile. Knowing her as a person, and having experienced the specific piece, I see her work as an absolute honest continuity of her personality: determined and sensitive, strong and delicate. She meticulously manipulates her materials and her pieces reflect on human's fragility: Tangled and untangled, knots and straight lines in a conversation and in a way that makes the viewer re-think on each step they make. I also love the theatrical and symbolical role of the shadows in this piece.
In her two or three dimensional works, she invites the viewer to re-think and re appreciate one's life accepting his/her vulnerability and traumatic experiences, as ways of re-invent one's selves.
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