Crime and Punishment

Day One – A space is constructed. The walls are painted red.
Day Two – A space is marked, using material based on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
Day Three – An actor plays the character of Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov, before a solitary viewer, the artist. More specifically, he enacts the scene between murders, after the first killing of Alyona Ivanovna and before that of her half sister Lizaveta.
Day Four – The artist, now alone, in front of a camera placed in the same space, narrates the experience of the previous day.
Day Five – Viewers come in.

Actors: Robert Beyer, Berlin and Yorgos Simeonidis, Thessaloniki and Athens

Crime and Punishment, installation view, KW - Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, 2002

Crime and Punishment, installation view, KW - Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, 2002

Crime and Punishment, installation view, KW - Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, 2002

Crime and Punishment, installation view, KW - Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, 2002

Crime and Punishment, installation view, KW - Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, 2002

Archive (the room is so large that it absorbs the two worlds that it separates), installation view, HD video, 13 min., sound, Onassis Cultural Centre Athens, 2011
With the actor Yorgos Symeonidis and the artist

Archive (the room is so large that it absorbs the two worlds that it separates), video still, HD video, 13 min., sound, Onassis Cultural Centre Athens, 2011

Crime and Punishment, installation view, KW - Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, 2002

from the series Crime and Punishement, FineArt Inkject Print, 40 x 50 cm, 2011

from the series Crime and Punishement, FineArt Inkject Print, 40 x 50 cm, 2011

from the series Crime and Punishement, FineArt Inkject Print, 40 x 50 cm, 2011