TASSOS
KALIAKATSOS 

A work of art is a passageway connecting here to an uncertain elsewhere. It is a space where the past, the present and a possible future cross paths and the precious link between origin and mutation adoption is attempted. This move carried out by the artist in time and space consists a liberating force within the establishment. He who has access to this dimension and knows how to make use of it without remaining trapped on the shores of a past forever lost will create an original piece of work. Let us then accept the perpetual back and forths between languages, cultures, histories and forms or art which allow these breaches and fertile dislocations to materialize, these attractive hybrid forms to come to life. Should creation not be a study of the unknown? It is obvious that the role of any artist is not to mimic what already exists but to respectfully use the past to invent what could possibly be. This is a kind of alienation whose unique nobleness and fertility we can not deny. This uncanny feeling within us is, so to speak, "the hidden face of our identity". By carrying his story with him the artist is forced to rediscover himself in order to create. He is like an explorer who gives up on what he already knows and has been proven to escape a frozen and sterile timeline and open up to the infinite or indefinite timelessness of creation. This is, after all, his raison d' etre.

Sophie Fardella
Visual Artist

2013