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Thodoris Trampas

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matters of man. The best for me is to
incorporate the audience into my process
so that it feels free. The nature is always
there to remind us that we have forsaken it
in the quest for another, unnatural life.
This is the sense I am trying to give to the
public with Pangaea, that “despite all this
destruction, Pangaea is still there”.
Amorphous Mass accomplishes an
effective inve stigation about the liminal
area in which the subconscious sphere
and the conscious dimension find
unexpected points of convergence. Your
inquiry into the themes of rejections and
loneliness accomplishes an insightful
exploration of the thin line that separes
abstract symbolism that belongs to the
realm of utopia from reminders to the
everyday. German multidisciplinary artist
Thomas Demand once stated that
"nowadays art can no longer rely so much
on symbolic strategies and has to probe
psychological, narrative elements within
the medium instead". What is your
opinion about it? And in particular how do
you conceive the narrative and especialy
the visual unity for your works?

Of course there are several symbolisms in
art which are necessary for some works,
the purpose of which is to arouse the
human mind. Thomas Demand’s view
comes to ratify to a great extent the role of
performance as regards the psychoanalytic
approaches of man. Of course a skeptical
way of thinking nowadays has brought us
to a point of material saturation and
individualism. Precious values have been
lost along the way and this is why the man
has been isolated. This is the point where
art must bring new channels to the surface
in order to liberate humanity. The visual
result is not an end in itself in my work. It
arises through visual composition so that it
serves the purposes of the narrative. In
fact the narrative I use is the text of the

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