Pyxis

Installation in progress

Acrylics, paper, paper tape, wool, variable dimensions

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Installation shots of  the group show Epistemologies of the Sun, curated by Marina Fokidis, Rebecca Camhi Gallery, 2022.

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For the exhibition Epistemologies of the Sun, Eleni Kotsoni creates the wall installation Pyxis. The title refers to the marine's compass and, at the same time, to the pyxis, that means box in ancient Greek. Pyxis is commonly a female accessory that collects, accommodates, and embraces (all encompassing).

The installation is growing in continuum following the sunlight. It is a non-representational set of fragments of images that the artist combines with tapes and painted patterns inspired by the decoration of ancient vases (pyxides). Eleni Kotsoni assembles fragments of papers in the way that the conservator and the archaeologist assemble fragments of vases with the historical document in mind. The work climbs towards the sun like a living organism but also resembles a floor plan of an imaginary city that is expanding anarchically in space and time.