PCAI supports Andreas Angelidakis, who will represent Greece at the 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia.
Andreas Angelidakis presents Escape Room, a solo presentation of new works curated by George Bekirakis. Τhe Greek Pavilion is transformed into a present-day Platonic Cave. Plato’s seminal text is reimagined as an immersive, inhabitable environment, situated within the current era of post-truth and rising nationalist populism. In Angelidakis’s hands, the Platonic allegory becomes a malleable instrument for probing the present, in which the world of images is saturated with digital illusions and cultural replicas. Shifting the focus to the history of the Greek Pavilion itself, the installation assembles elements presented as contested, constructed truths, illuminating both the complex nature of historical knowledge and its entanglement with nationalism and propaganda.
Angelidakis notes: “The National Pavilions of the Giardini were designed as vessels to communicate the political agendas of the governments that erected them
at that particular historical moment. Today, they stand as Frozen Fascist and Colonial Caves, trapped within the Giardini, now a site for examining political choices, their consequences, and their transformation into art. Each Pavilion functions
as a truth-generating mechanism, akin to the mechanisms in Plato’s allegory of
the cave, yet today recalling a Phantasmagoria of Global Trumpism: if we replace
the Cave with the Screen, what remains is every manifestation of MAGA as a
staging of fascism in 2025.”
The 61st Venice Biennale will take place from 9 May to 22 November 2026.
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Activity aligned with Goals 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17
