Amfythimia
Multimedia Installation | Blog/Script | Booklet
MA Major Project
Exhibited at Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London
21 Sept - 1 Oct 2022
Installation
Is the truth hidden in the real world or within ourselves? Have we forgotten about it? What is the truth anyway? What about the patterns that we create along the way?
Amfythimia (Greek word for Ambivalence) takes us on a multimedia journey that explores and merges various antitheses – the digital and the analogue, the past and the future, the free and the trapped, the conscious and the subconscious – in search of an inner truth.
Amfythimia (Greek word for Ambivalence) takes us on a multimedia journey that explores and merges various antitheses – the digital and the analogue, the past and the future, the free and the trapped, the conscious and the subconscious – in search of an inner truth.
This abstract conversation happens between the typewritten thoughts projected on the wall, the black and white footage hanging from the ceiling, and a sound that cannot be put into words.
Blog/Script
However, the purpose of this project lies beyond its installed form in the gallery. Part of my artistic journey was the questioning of what a digital art project can actually be. How can it get expanded and shaped into something more?
That's where my blog/script comes into play. This interactive digital piece narrates the whole process of my major project, not only for the purpose of documenting it but to make it as important as the exhibited piece. The characters of the script are Elena, the artist and Eleni, the designer, two identities that will always make the one I am.
For the best experience, open the window below on full screen, scroll down and let the prologue of the script get you into my world...
Tip! Open in on Full-screen mode:
Booklet
Finally, the third part of Amfythimia, is a little handmade booklet, featuring poems, thoughts and ideas of truth through a different narrative. Words have been typewritten on images, images have been reprinted on paper. Each paper is a page, communicating nostalgia, hope, truth and nature. Although a digital version is not available at the moment, some of the typewritten notes below can give an accurate taste not only for the booklet, but for the whole project called Amfythimia.
In other words, by putting all those paradoxes into three narratives – a book, a blog, and a final installation – she aims to break the boundaries of what a project can be and take you on a ride with me to a forgotten “home”.