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To[πύον]

2022
BARBICAN CENTRE

Το[πύον] / the pus / landscape

Approaching repair with ambivalence. Understanding that sometimes the damage cannot be undone, but to nonetheless acknowledge it, recognize it, attempt it. A landscape transformed from a mine - to a wound - to a red lake. A landscape oozing underground water. A landscape transformed to a wet grave – to another wound – and now, to a map. A landscape oozing. Repair the unrepairable. An old trauma superimposing a new trauma. A map from the '60s superimposing google maps – what it was/what it is. Remembering as an attempt to repair – not letting the wounds be forgotten. Pus, the body’s response to an infection – the landscape’s attempt at healing. Scab, a reminder that here was/is an open wound; scratching it until there is no more blood, until there can be no more blood. 

For,
Livia Florentina Bunea, Elena Natalia Bunea, Maricar’s Valdez Arguiola, Arian Palanos Lozano, Asmita Khadka Bista, Mary Rose Tiburcio, and Siera Graze Seucalliuc.

Exhibited at the Barbican Centre for the Re:pair Exhibition and at Platforms Project in Athens. 

Screenprinting on paper 84.1 x 118.8 cm.

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