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MYRTO kARAMITSOU | GreeCe
myrtoka@otenet.gr

This work was conceived as an entirety of pools of light and water, circle on the ground, is made to impose a group of swimming pools
nested into a group of plaques that refer to the earth element. The seen from high above, like if they were some kind of artificial lakes.
shape of the plaques, irregular, similar but still different in each
one, pretends to be natural although it is artificial. Their texture Could it resemble mankind’s mania to massively reproduce what
resembles natural stone, and in particular natural volcanic stone. would normally be natural? Or mankind’s mania to display the
Although natural-looking, they incorporate human construction and artificial as if it were natural?
vice versa: In spite that their existence refers to the modern world, Indicating thus, the point in which our thought has penetrated the
at the same time they hide nostalgia for nature and natural elements. way we perceive nature, but also the point in which nature, even
The final form of the work, thirty five plaques constituting a free when suppressed, emerges and haunts our thought.

| BlUe pools, 2006 mixed mediA 120 in. | 300 Cm.
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