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The work of Nikos Zouboulis and Titsa Grekou, artists who use their bodies

in art and have been collaborating since 1975, also emphasized process

and the coexistence of planned and random elements.

Zouboulis staged his first interactive performance in 1973.

He used liquid latex, a material he developed himself,
which transformed into stable surfaces on which traces of portraits

on the audience were captured.

The elastic sheet framed in a crate, an off-shoot of the metamorphosis
of the fluid into a stable but easily-molded material, was to become

the trade mark of their collective work.

Functioning as a receiver for the action of the body, it became a unique

screen that captured, immobilized and immortalized the movements

and gestures of the key actors.
Despite the predetermined scripts, the music encouraged the performers

to improvise freely, while the play of light and shadow intensified the sense

of the theatrical.
From 1980 on, the static works – body prints in relief – constitute

both the traces the process left behind and testimony to the actions

they serve to document.

Bia Papadopoulou

Athens, 2005