Offerings
series of works, 1997-2003
Offerings
Offerings 4, resin, steel plates, iron, color, 300X700X350 cm, Athina by Art, 2004, Kerameikos, Athens.
Offerings 4, 2001, resin, steel plates, iron, color, 300X700X350cm, Open 2001, 4th International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Globalization of Cultures, Lido, Venice
Offerings 3, 2000, resin, steel plates, iron, color, dimensions variables, Leaving the Island, PICAF Art Festival 2003, Busan Metropolitan Museum for Contemporary Art., Busan, Korea.
Offerings 2, 1997, , 1997, 240Χ320Χ320 cm, resin, steel plates, iron, color, Lichthaus, Bremen, Germany
Offerings 6, 2003, resin, dimensions variable.
The notion of offering not in the sense of stressing the magical practices that have to do with the divine and the supernatural whose purpose is the orientation of an occult force in regard to a defined source of energy, but rather a ceremony which is connected with the processes of the incorporation of the individual into his or her society. A ritual used as a metaphor for the transition from one state to another, in the course of one’s life, a ceremony aiming for atonement and purification, leading finally to communication itself and the codes of communication….
(From the catalogue text of Lina Tsikouta for the 4th edition of Οpen 2001, Globalization of Cultures)