
Artist
Vasilis Patmios Karouk
Title
Prima Materia
Date
2016
Medium
HD video installation
Dimensions
Dimensions variable
Credit line
Courtesy Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative
Rights and Reproductions Information
© Vasilis Patmios Karouk – Polyeco S.A.
Object label
The human need growing into greed, has always been draining Nature’s “nectar”, but in the last 150 years the ravaging of the earth has become so obscure, like never before in human history. Prima Materia is a gloomy abstract representation of the rape of the Earth, presented as a woman, a mother goddess, soaring over destruction and enduring her childrens’ madness, which leads them to their demise. This Gaia, lingers like an exhausted female super hero in a cinematic, eye pleasing, moving image frame, perpetually bearing this insanity.
CREDITS
Created by
Vasilis P. Karouk
Performer
Vasso Kavalieratou
Commissioning Curator
Nadja Argyropoulou for Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative
Production Manager
Nikos Tsiolas
Τechnical support
Serafim Arkomanis
Executive Producer
Athanasios Polychronopoulos, Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative
Assistant
Vanessa P. Karouk
Special Thanks to
Ariadne Kypri