B Is Everything You Can Imagine From The Material World, November 2016 - February 2017
Solo Show At Ileana Tounta Gallery, Athens, Greece
Installation View:
Ilena Tounta Gallery, December 2016, Athens, Greece
In the new site specific installation of Dimitris Foutris, entitled 'B Is Everything You Can Imagine From The Material World', the level of perception of the material world is intrinsically related to the level of perception of daily activities. Dialogues, thoughts, relationships and roles interact with the materiality of the world around us, or rather with our memory of it.
The focus of this reasoning is not the everyday, but rather daily life as a modern human condition, within which the different narration layers are recorded and stratified.
Elliptical, fragmentary and repetitive, like memory itself, these incidents are not tangent to life, but stand in its proximity up to the point of questioning the real. Among the shapes of this collage, in the gaps, we identify faces and biographies refined into what we call experience.
An element of particular importance for Dimitris Foutris is - like in his previous work - the creation of the works’ viewing conditions and interpretation framework. Thus, space becomes an integral part of the work itself, specifically the voids, which are hierarchically classified as equal to the wide range of media used. From installation to photography and video the works deal with the boundaries between the material and immaterial, between objects and language.
Αthough They Fit With Everything That Mechanically Fits In This, 2016
Wood pedestals 1, 2+3, 4(only glass), glass, watercolour paper, clips, dimensions variable
(She Laughs), 2015
Digital print on Fine Art paper, museum glass, framed, 53Χ63 cm
We Glow! 2016 HD video, 9:45 min. Colour, Stereo Sound
Video installation, headphone, HD projector, wood bench, black glass, water colour paper, wood stand, clips, dimensions variable
(Stirring His Cup With A Spoon.), 2015
Digital print on Fine Art paper, tryptich, 105Χ70 cm (each)
Αthough They Fit With Everything That Mechanically Fits In This, 2016
Wood pedestals 1, 2+3, 4(only glass), glass, watercolour paper, clips, dimensions variable
First Day Of The Week, 2015 / Not Even Speak For A Long Time, 2015
Digital print on Fine Art paper, museum glass, framed, 88Χ60 cm
And At That Moment, 2015 / I Remember Clearly, 2015 / During The Trip I Was Daydreaming, 2015
Digital print on Fine Art paper, museum glass, framed, 88Χ60 cm
We Glow! 2016 HD video, 9:45 min. Colour, Stereo Sound
Video installation, headphone, HD projector, wood bench, black glass, water colour paper, wood stand, clips, dimensions variable
We Glow! (excerpt) from Dimitris Foutris on Vimeo.