Offerings

Offerings
series of works, 1997-2003

Four translucent double vessels, in color red as blood, hang on steel bands from a linear metal composition that inscribes helix in the space.

Katerina Apostolidou’s sculpture, Offerings 4, is one of a group of works through which she has been exploring the motif of the vessel both as form and as conceptual content since 1994. For her, the vessel represents an organic form whose action invokes an offering, in the sense that links creation to ritual.

From the plastic point of view , the perseverance with which she systematically explores the theme of the dialectic between convex and concave surfaces stems from the deep interest in sculpture as a means to create a feeling of suspension between opposite forces. Apostolidou molds in a unified form the antithetical notions of stability and instability, the fullness of the void and the compression of space by volume, as well as the morphology of the natural and the artificial world. In essence her work is a plastic exploration of the notions of introversion and extroversion in the language of sculpture. She shapes her materials into concavities, wombs , into communicating vessels engraving flow channels on their inner surface. Her constructions hover in space like archetypes of a timeless ritual that commemorates the creative act of genesis, conception and offering.

Efi Strousa (from the catalogue text of the exhibition Athina by Art, 2004)