Nathalie

Karagiannis

Exorismos (Exile)

2024

Exorismos (Exile)
Athens: Melani, 2016

Exile is a book exploring the possibility that the exilic condition might be some kind of refuge – that the refugee might be at home elsewhere. It takes its source in the opposition to nostalgia and to historical and mythical conditioning, without renouncing an alternative ‘we’.

I’m grateful to Christopher Cozier who allowed the use of his powerfully evocative Castaway for the book’s cover.

Nathalie Karagiannis

2024_Exorismos (Exile)_Indoor Works / Objects
Self-trapped Fence
Recycled packaging paper, chicken wire.
La Fusteria, Barcelona.
4 m x 1,5 m.

This self-trapped fence, or cloud or whale, was created in the context of a series of improvisation dialogues with Pablo Volt’s music. It encompasses my interest in hindrance and its overcoming and the compulsion to un-flatten things out, to create embossing, to squeeze islands out of a surface. I long to see this object multiplied.

Photo credits: Pere Pueyo.