The distant songbird call; a distinctly heartfelt undulation between observation, documentation and active participation.
The natural world, and by equal measure, its form as malleable archive; rehearsal and reminder for living; evidence of the living-commotion, beckons to Stelios Kallinikou. A seemingly fragmented approach vividly translates into the articulation of his practice, stretching across the aural realm, photography, video and found-archival material.
L'Amertume, by Theodore Gimeno
Théodore Gimeno’s latest film, L’Amertume (or otherwise Bitterness) is an attentive, yet fluid exploration of non-linear time, mortality, and the past as double absence: something that was never there, yet gone altogether.
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An intimate collection of meanderings on ENDROSIA’s exhibition, six stacks of ashes eight piles of dust (2022).
To engage with the archive is to uncover a particular double absence. The past is no longer here, and it was never here in the first place. Archival experimentation treads a particular inarticulateness: the search for the impossible object; the impossible story, and perhaps despite this, forumulating new modalities of story-telling.