Eirene Efstathiou
My work is a meditation on how history is imprinted on place and on the body, both the collective and individual body. It is an inquiry into what it means to be a biopolitical subject in ‘the news’, and then what is left (in memory, in print) when the cycle has moved on.
My practice is research based, my approach a psychogeography meandering through the archive and the landscape. It awaits the revolutionary moment (still), but in the meantime examines the aesthetics, affect and mechanisms of dissent and uprising. I am fascinated by the language in common of these bursts of rebellion across time and space. I am interested in ruptures that make visible, or legible, Minor Histories, and I plot a course through the erasures but also revelations of both public and private memory. My work shifts between printmaking, painting, small-scale installations and performance, exploring the indexicality of each medium, as well as each’s unique relationship to time. I am deeply committed to making things by analog and by hand; here I trace how the body inscribes in observing the imprints on the body (politic). My work dwells and revels in the generative tension of the unique and the multiple, tracing and traversing the multiple perspectives of historical memory.
