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| Dimitris Merantzas Pendency of proceedings is a work from the project entitled Reality is the informer of imagination, which Dimitris Merantzas started working on circa the mid-1990s. The compositions of this project constitute an integrated proposal and formalization, functioning as projections of the artist’s experiences, psychic tension, thoughts and concerns – compositions in which sensitivity cohabits with cruelty and bluntness, logic with feeling and instinct, tender gestures with the aesthetics of a scenographic practice, subversion with discreet and sometimes imperceptible irony, political commentary, a liberating spirit and a critical eye with more or less apparent symbolic references. Ruined, useless and old guns, mirrors, meat hooks and butcher’s blocks – readymade objects bearing the marks of time, wear and the memories of their original usage – are the main materials used by Merantzas to approach social and political reality, to investigate its contradictions and complexities, to address memory and history, to manifest his resistance to the problems of his time, to comment on the extremities and discord of human behaviour, to refer extensively to different expressions and interpretations of violence. War, destruction and death, physical, psychological and emotional violence, the legitimatization and justification of violence in a world that is fragmented and disoriented, the games of power and domination in interpersonal and inter-gender relationships – all this is contained and hinted at his work. Pendency of proceedings creates an imposing artistic environment, with a vertical installation containing a two-sided mirror functioning as a pendulum. At the same time, the lighting creates two identical trapezoid shapes on the floor of the exhibition venue – one light and one dark – which follow the palindrome movement of the mirror. The installation is structured on the confrontation and conflict, the conjugation and unification of opposite concepts: Light – Darkness, Truth – Lie, Fair – Unfair. Besides, the title is equally revealing and indicative of the creator’s clear intentions. Giannis Bolis  Download CV |  Pendency of proceedings |
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