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MYRTO XANTHOPOULOU
B. 1981, Helsinki. Lives in Athens.
500 Days in the Desert, 2020 Saturated, 2020
Internal Combustion, 2020
The works are like notes. They are three attempts to articulate a landscape that is too familiar. They are about scribbling at the tip of exhaustion, and words at the tip of the tongue.
Almost grazing thin wrapping paper with a blue Bic ballpoint pen, almost burning paper with a lighter. These gestures and materials are full of words, disposable and delicate, mundane and holy, silly and painful, stereotypical and honest. Being with both ends of the spectrum at the same time is the vital contradiction at the core of language and experience, the contradiction that keeps one writing, erasing, wrapping things with foil and burning the midnight oil. Counting days, scratches, burns. Loving the depth of surface.
Loving a landscape that is all words, all ashes. Myrto Xanthopoulou
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