An Erratic Storm: Reaching Out to the Infinite
Alkinois
January 26–February 23, 2024
Alkinois
January 26–February 23, 2024
The exhibition An Erratic Storm: Reaching Out to the Infinite is concerned with the shudder and veneration inspired by humans’ relationship with the limitless magnitudes of empirically given things. It examines how the sublime can be reimagined in the context of our rapidly changing world and the experiences that this relationship engenders. Linked to the mind’s capacity to register the interminable, the experience overwhelms the ego and exposes the individual’s physical powerlessness.
Across the exhibition, works are positioned to produce moments of pause and confrontation. Paired forms establish visual correspondences that verge on figuration, while sound and moving image punctuate the space intermittently, introducing rhythm and interruption rather than narrative continuity. Large-scale painted surfaces occupy the space with dense textures and shifting tonal fields.
The placement of other works plays with weight, balance and proximity. Sculptural elements, some wall-mounted and others floor-bound, range from hollowed forms and metallic structures to suspended and freestanding objects. These works mimic industrial components yet remain unstable in both scale and function. Similarly, same-sized photographic prints are installed at different heights, disrupting familiar hierarchies of display. Elevated fabric surfaces appear displaced or withheld from direct use, registering as skins or imprints of the architecture itself rather than static images, absorbing light and distance.
These encounters foreground that which cannot be commanded, grounded in an awareness of lack. In this sense, the contemporary sublime alienates perception, disrupting the stable coordinates of time and space.
Curated by: Dinos Chatzirafailidis
Participating artists: Manolis D. Lemos, Maria Mavropoulou, Petros Moris, Pauline Pastry, Mercedes Pimiento
Installation photography: Stathis Mamalakis
Visual identity: Eleni Kaskoura
Alkinois | 6, Alkinois Street, Athens, Greece 118 52
Across the exhibition, works are positioned to produce moments of pause and confrontation. Paired forms establish visual correspondences that verge on figuration, while sound and moving image punctuate the space intermittently, introducing rhythm and interruption rather than narrative continuity. Large-scale painted surfaces occupy the space with dense textures and shifting tonal fields.
The placement of other works plays with weight, balance and proximity. Sculptural elements, some wall-mounted and others floor-bound, range from hollowed forms and metallic structures to suspended and freestanding objects. These works mimic industrial components yet remain unstable in both scale and function. Similarly, same-sized photographic prints are installed at different heights, disrupting familiar hierarchies of display. Elevated fabric surfaces appear displaced or withheld from direct use, registering as skins or imprints of the architecture itself rather than static images, absorbing light and distance.
These encounters foreground that which cannot be commanded, grounded in an awareness of lack. In this sense, the contemporary sublime alienates perception, disrupting the stable coordinates of time and space.
Curated by: Dinos Chatzirafailidis
Participating artists: Manolis D. Lemos, Maria Mavropoulou, Petros Moris, Pauline Pastry, Mercedes Pimiento
Installation photography: Stathis Mamalakis
Visual identity: Eleni Kaskoura
Alkinois | 6, Alkinois Street, Athens, Greece 118 52