MARIOS STAMATIS
SUBTLE NUANCES (w/ Lea Collet)
INSTALLATION, 2017
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In western culture, love has ever so often been represented as unpredictable and uncontrollable; as a source of paradoxes and conflicting forces. The power of love can simultaneously intensify life, as well as it can lead to its destruction. Love has the ability to create euphoria and ecstatic happiness just as it can suspend one with unfathomably crippling despair. Eros and Thanatos. Yet it is death that ever so often carries the last word in the greatest love stories. Seemingly, innocuous feelings can easily turn into tragedy. The attraction between two people has the aptitude to unleash destructive forces that slither into all cracks of life only to dissolve it. Thus, it is of no coincidence that erotic attraction has often been identified with the term “chemistry”.
London, 2017.
