PIETA 

 

Installation - Video projection - Performace

Collaboration   Giannis Gianoutsos

 

Mediterranean BODIES,  Installation - Video projection - Performace: Pieta #1, Qrator, Athens

 

Mediterranean BODIES,  Installation - Video projection - Performace: Pieta #2,Booze Cooperativa , Athens

 

Mediterranean BODIES,  Installation - Performace: Pieta #3, Romantzo, Athens

 

February 2016

 

Duration: 45 minutes

 

Materials: Artist's body,  white fabric, Polyester Fiber Fill, rope, projector.

 

 

" ... The movement is the key element of the soul. The soul produces movement once trapped in the body. The end of the motion signifies the end of the action of the soul in the body. Means that death ... "

                                                                                                                                                   Plato, 'Phaedrus'

 

The installation arises from the concept of "Lifeless and souled". We create a structure which stimulates to a body. The work refers to Michelangelo's "Pieta" (1498–1499). Reducing it to its formal parameters, we create an abstract installation removing it from its iconographic context (see pictures).

Alluding to the lifeless body of Christ in "Pieta", the performer is lying at the bottom of the installation, inside the sack. Diverging though from its point of reference, his action consists of slow -gradually increasing- movements.

The goal is to turn the amorphous mass of the installation into a sort of live organism, in continuous flux and transformation.

 

Documentation

Giannis Gianoutsos