A day after a day after a day after a day

A day after a day after a day after a day

Paky Vlassopoulou

One Minute Space, Athens

14.01.2023-11.02.2022

 

A DAY AFTER A DAY AFTER A DAY

Notes on an exhibition by Florent Frizet

 

a history of topographies

a history of terrors

 

We always build over something

We count, mark, appropriate because everything belongs to everyone

or how to

extract symbols and information from history to recreate a narrative

 

plates

in porcelain, like all over the world,

keep counting

keep measuring

keep eating

keep repeating

in broken plates

 

A story with

few drawings, a lot of distortion

smashed

plates without any use

on the wall for memories, memories for a memorial

in porcelain

 

A single line

a horizon

the line at which the earth’s surface and the sky appear to meet

the limit of a person’s knowledge, experience, or interest

 

and in the center a dead vertical a

subject uprooted

another extrapolated

to complete a dialogue

 

simultaneously reading Agnes Martin

lines again.

 

A succession of sunsets and sunrises with words

by the artist

 

and

David Adjaye

Aristidis Antonas

Behrouz Boochazi

Stanley Brouwn

Antonio Gramsci

Primo Levi

 

or an extract from an illegal newspaper

 

Suspended monads where

 

the material becomes the object of protest

 

Extrapolate a dialogue through distance

 

Wild Reeds

from the arctic to the tropics

 

An ongoing totality where

Days are surrounding us

while

The very idea of escape forms the exterior to which one can flee