Artist
Leda Papaconstantinou
Title
Do not walk alone into this lonely night
Date
2022
Medium
Two-channel HD Video, 16:9, with sound and color, 14’03”
Credit line
Leda Papaconstantinou, Do Not Walk Alone Into This Lonely Night, video, 14’03”, PCAI Collection
Special thanks to Fani Bitou
It is a commissioned work by PCAI in the occasion of the exhibition Sheltered Gardens.
Object label
Ι have been studying with loving interest, a garden close to mine.
Τhis observation is eventually manifested, in the form of a split screen image, where two (…oh many more…) gardens sing their songs, contained within red parallel borders. Like the red lacquered entries to temples, theaters, sites and more. I thought of the narrative as a libretto for an opera.
A vague greco-chinese-saxon opera.
The narrative goes a bit like this:
” Happy birthday to you…
…the house was closed…
…the garden was empty…
…in the place of flowers…
…he planted chinese…
…self-illuminated flowers.
…blasphemy…
…it is christmas eve…
…right here…
…blue green red yellow…
…they are beautiful…but…
…they are not flowers…
…do not walk alone…
I keep alert to changes and maintain my garden; and by doing so, the song of this earth shall be forever.
Truly.
Leda Papaconstantinou
