TOLIS TATOLAS
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Letters' Altar
Letters' Altar

   Letters’ Altar (2022) by Tolis Tatolas examines our relation to the accelerating extinction of written speech as a medium of ultimate expression. The installation comprises an altar made of rubble –remnants of humanity– while written religious banner-type surfaces, establish a shrine dedicated to the decay and the deconstruction of civilisation as we know it. A book of holy writings –an assembly of words and phrases of humankind since its very beginning– demarcates the end of speech, which is represented by an act of sacrifice; it becomes an offering to a new consecrated and undeciphered actuality. Through his linguistic environment, the artist turns the choreography of words and symbols into a stratification of thoughts, all deriving directly from an inner source. Emphasising on notions of utopianism, Tatolas dwells on the disorder and the ideological follies of our world and invokes through a soundscape his fears about the metamorphosis of collective consciousness and intellect. A lingering light above everything suggests a threshold of hope and faith.
                                                                                                                                                                            Dr Kostas Prapoglou
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Contemporary Art Curator


The Letters' Altar installation is a site specific audiovisual installation and was created in situ for the group exhibition Reality Check II: Inner Sanctum, curated by Dr Kostas Prapoglou, at Bodossaki Building of Dafni Psychiatric Hospital of Athens, from the 29th of September until the 30th of October 2022.

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  • Biography
  • Statement
  • Visual Art
    • Ambient Sequences
    • Licht und Verklärung
    • Diversity's Ark
    • Artificial Horizons
    • Letters' Altar
    • Remains of a Fall
    • Fragments of Dystopia
    • Abstract Colour Architectural Photography
    • Abstract B/W Architectural Photography
    • SkinScapes
    • Homo paulista
    • Learning from Pieria: Redefining postmodernism in the land of the Olympian gods
    • The Marlene Dietrich Project
  • New Media
  • Exhibitions
  • Publications
  • Contact