Room 604 A
2021
Single-channel HD video
6:52mins
Works
- Installation View
Mother & Child (series) 2021 - Mother & Child I
2021
Notice board, felt, digital print on photo paper 90 x 60 cm - Mother & Child II
2021
Metal display stand, A5 postcard 47.5 x 23.5 x 33 cm - Mother & Child III
2021
Metal floor stand, A4 photocopy 135 x 27.5 x 37 cm
Statement
‘As I woke up from a dream, I found my-self in a silent moment where every-thing seemed still and frozen. Time had stopped and everywhere I looked, there were lifeless objects carrying a reproduction of their own image. It was an unsettling moment that seemed to last forever. I closed my eyes, but the image was still there. I panicked. I couldn’t move.’
Using Baudrillard’s ideas around the production of meaning through difference and self- referentiality as a starting point, these projects explore the relationship between subject and object. It is an at-tempt to expose the mechanisms of ‘seduction’ that the object applies to the subject (through the image), a process that moves meaning into an unstable and fearful environment created by the excessive distribution and consumption of visual information. The video is inspired by a series of photographs by the Greek writer Christos Chrysopoulos and explores the consequences of isolation both in a real and in an abstract environment. Correspondingly, this series of sculptures investigate the structures that lie between the production and the consumption of images and the potential impact that this might have to our connection with reality.
Biography
Yorgos Karras (1980) is a Greek born visual artist. He studied painting at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania. His work has been exhibited in various places including the National Theatre of Bucharest, TAF gallery and EOS gallery in Athens, Greece. In 2007 he was commissioned to design a series of lightboxes for Zanotta shop in Athens. His most recent work takes the form of mixed media installations and sculptural objects, short films and drawings.He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Arts at the Glasgow School of Art.