Description
“Equilibrium”
For the past five years Lambros Ilias Vouvousiras has been working on his own technique inspired by the traditional vertical loom, the weavings of Northern Greece and Athenian modernism through the architectural profile of the city.
His materials are ribbons, cords, threads, and each piece is completely unique.
With his piece Equilibrium is embarking on personal journey of discovery, searching for that secret, sensitive and subtle place within time and space. A visualisation through colours and lines. Inspired by the Athenian modernist grids that are abandoned in his urban landscape, around Victoria Sq. he creates colour dialogues, reminiscent of old masters mixed with palettes found in street art. Using soft silk threads that are close to breaking point through tension, Vouvousiras creates multi layered visions that open up as doors or tall window facades, inviting us to lose ourselves in the relationship behind what is visible and what has become hidden in the process. What remains private and what stays public. An unconscious voyeurism in silk.
A process similar to vertical looms, traditionally worked by women to create coth, throws, rugs. Equilibrium aims to expose the lack of balance between preconceived ideas of gender, identity via the workplace as
well as functionality vs the non-necessary. Tighten grids of explosive colour juxtapositions to make us dream of a different urban future.
