STATEMENT FOR EKKOLAPTÓMENOS
“Our existence and our souls do not conform to a single mold. Each of us is different, yet this world often forces us to erase those differences just to survive. Systems and laws are built on the violent disregard of individual variation in the name of efficiency and that violence exists to uphold power structures. Just look at how the so-called ‘normal’ standard of five-day, eight-hour workweeks has bred indifference toward others, toward the world, and even toward oneself. That’s violence.
Walter Benjamin spoke of two types of violence: mythic violence, which sustains law and structure, and divine violence, which shatters them. In this work, I attempt the latter. By driving shards of soul into the cracks of what seems fixed, I want to challenge the illusion that the self, the now, the here even the 'you' or 'me' are static. Instead, they are dynamic forces in constant transformation: hatching and being hatched, destroying and creating, all at once.
If we accept that human existence is inherently fluid, then it follows that we are capable of building more adaptive, liberated communities. I’m always watching for the moment that revolution becomes possible.”
HARU NEMURI
