The Greek Pavilion, 48th Venice Biennale
The work consists of three laser sources, reflecting on and deflecting from twelve mirrors placed high on the ceiling of the pavilion. Wholes made on the walls allowed the laser beams to go outside the pavilion. The laser beams are describing and reproducing inside the pavilion the bird's eye view drawing of the same building. The room is dark and the only presence is these pale green particles of thick dust, for the laser beams although fluorescent they are not immediately visible nor do they strike the eye. One must spent some time in registering that there is something exhibited in this dark room.
The idea was to turn to high-power technology and the entertainment industry and take a distance from them for the work of art. Here laser beams are a dull, thick dust, lingering over a dark space. I used the most visible and vociferous means available at that time for a work that is neither easily visible nor heard.
The project questions the given identity of the exhibition space. Because a Biennale is always overwhelming the space and the purpose of the exhibition a priori overwhelms the works- my work spoke of a sight and a sense rendered unavailable by the quantity of things exhibited, and by the tourist-industry given "national" identities. It does not affirm any absent meaning, nor points to abstract and vague possibilities, instead, it lets the unavailability of meaning hang in the atmosphere of the dark room.
