Lavreotiki Art Project, 2023
Lavrion Technological Park
This group project, curated by Amalia Charikiopoulou, focused on the Lavreotiki area in Attica, Greece, which has a fascinating history, with a mining industry since antiquity. My work for the exhibition consisted of an installation in two parts. A scroll painting (1x10 m) of imprints of slag, remains of the mining operations, together with imprints of my body, on Japanese paper. The second part was an installation of sculptural objects made from wax and paint, derived from molds of the slag collected from the area. The models were placed on the actual slag from which they derived.
The ideas of transposition of my body and my practice to the landscape, moving through the landscape, regeneration, and caring for the earth were central in the creation of these works.
Down to the Paradise City (part 1) Installation
OIl sticks, oil pastels, spray and soft pastel on japanese paper, 1x10m
Down to the Paradise City, part 1 (detail)
Down to the paradise city, part 1 (detail)
Paradise city (Pt 2)
Installation of wax and paint sculptures. Wax, paint , slag.
Wax and paint sculpture, presented on the slag from which it was moulded. (11x12x6cm)
Wax and paint sculpture, 15x8x5 cm
Wax and paint sculpture 14x10x5cm
Wax and paint sculpture 10x8x5 cm