Apodimia II, 2018

Installation

Title: Apodimia*

Dimensions: 150X60 approx.

Materials: A dress, handmade paper, pencil/watercolour, threads, hanger

Year: 2018

In the installation called "Apodimia", children's figures in the form of shadows, which are designed with pencils on black handmade paper that resembles fabric, are sewn together to frame a wedding nightdress, changing it completely and giving it a new substance. Dozens of melancholy forms of infants and children "dress" the silk garment creating a strange collage of many different stories.

I approach the issue of forced migration in the form of an installation in which the predominant element is the absolute of the black and white that morphologically refers to a past, but also in the present, maybe of non-existent time, while demonstrating the power of neutrality and estrangement as an indication of isolation. The idea was conceived in the autumn of 2013 when Greece had already begun the collection of the bodies of refugees, both adult and children from the Mediterranean seas... souls which floating in eternity.

*Apodimia it’s a greek word, deeper meaning for “emigration”