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Zoumboulakis Galleries proudly present "Electric Home", an exhibition by Harris Kondosphyris, on Tuesday 17 January 2009. The gallery space transforms through an installation of cement sculptures, paintings and authentic old signs taken by the streets.
Harris Kondosphyris evokes the puberty of the senses, love, social phobias and childhood memories. Within the framework of contemporary questioning, the artist invites the viewer to enter the mind of a teenager just before the moment of "rebellion".
"Detachment" and "inclusion" are issues that preoccupy the artist, who in turn creates narratives of intellectual alienation, social indecisiveness, psychological and psychoanalytical reformation. Elements of privacy and public, present and future, all poke everyone's past.
"…The viewer upon entering the gallery is faced by three teenagers who shut each other's senses in the characteristic, Japanese representation of "See not evil, hear no evil, speak no evil", and block the viewer's path like roadblocks. One of the teenagers can see, the other can hear while the third scents the aggressiveness of a coyote at the edge of an unmade bed, full of love, electrified sexuality, loneliness and misled reproductive instinct. Authentic shop-signs taken by Omonia and Pagrati (central Athens) set the path not only of the exhibition, but of the clash, the hypocrisy, the disinterest, the repulse and the attraction of the future. The path is filled by a big portrait of Pavlos Sidiropoulos, as well as paintings inspired by posters from his concerts, all attributing to an ageless but already lost puberty. The idea of puberty, the moment of detachment from the family and the idea of lost innocence coexist in dozens of scattered, cement- coated, previously life-full toys that now lie abandoned in a gallery corner…"
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