DO NOT WALK ALONE INTO THIS LONELY NIGHT

LEDA PAPACONSTANTINOU, 2022

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