installation of video works and drawings:

lalangue or poetics of existence

group exhibition - curator: Yiannis Mitrou

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Lalangue, a concept shaped by Jacques Lacan, is not the speech of communication but of jouissance—of pleasure, excess, and resonance. It is the primal murmur of language before it becomes language: the babble of the infant, the drifting “la-la,” the musical pulse that resists order. From this raw sound, the edifice of langue is later built, yet lalangue continues to haunt it—an undercurrent carrying an impregnable knowledge, inseparable from the unconscious and the drives of the body.

The exhibition was curated by the artist, curator and psychotherapist Yiannis Mitrou, who brought together two video art works of mine—food for dreams and end of hopeful vows—shown side by side for the first time, alongside my three drawings from the series time, mind, recorded (click on titles for more details on each of these projects).

Installed in a darkened room of an abandoned neoclassical mansion in Athens, the works unfolded without words: there are no spoken, sung, or written voices in either video, yet they are far from silent: both are dense with sound—layers, textures and incidental noises—that interact across the two screens, folding into and refracting one another’s moments. The drawings, too, emerge from a meditative, experiential process that slips beyond the reach of conscious speech. Placed together, the videos entered into an unforeseen dialogue: a new, unspoken dimension surfaced through their dynamic interplay, encircled and deepened by the surrounding drawings.

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