In Whose Eyes We Are the Same

Installation, TV monitor, text, polaroids, 2024

“we shall know that fish shout, that the sea is full of noises and that the void is peopled with realistic ghosts in whose eyes we are the same."

Jean Cocteau

The installation is an an attempt to create an archaeology of media (from the medium of drawing to that of the digital image).

The installation examines the relationship between the emergence of new media and the appearance of hitherto unknown forms of life, questioning the idea of technological evolution in the current context of the ecological crisis. Pencil drawings are digitized in an old television, creating a swamp filled with fake tadpoles, functioning as an analogy of progress and media that store and reproduce information.

"In Latin, nostrum means ours, while in English the word is translated as medicine or remedy of all kinds, thus encapsulating the notions of collectivity and healing. The homonymous exhibition is being held this summer in the village of Argalasti by a group of people with family ties to Pelion and the wider region of Volos and Thessaly, who seek an artistic approach to the collective trauma caused by the catastrophic floods of autumn 2023. Through a series of artworks, the artists take a critical stance on the issue of healing, both of humans and of nature, while highlighting concepts such as communitarianism, cooperative action, and the social sense of belonging, as necessary mechanisms of healing for the land and its inhabitants."
Elli Leventaki, excerpt from exhibition text, Nostrum, 2024

Installation View, Nostrum, Lectures on the Mountain, Vyzitsa, 2024 curated by Elli Leventaki