Title: As the threshold gets brighter
Description: Site-performance for camera, mobile video projection
Technical: HD video, 16:9, colour, stereo
Year: 2023
Geo-coordinates: 37.565176, 22.798161 / 37.564790, 22.800709
Concept / Notes
‘In a liquid world, we are unable to grasp time and its complexities. Everything is transient and ephemeral. Streets are get lighten by city; traces, places and frozen narratives that show us how fleeting our human condition is. We often are in a liminal condition, suspended to thresholds, between the past which collapses and the future which is under constant becoming.‘, says Zeppou.
The work of Zeppou forms a walking performance with a handheld mobile projection, between two sites with historical and architectural significance in the old city of Nafplion: the site of Greece first governor Ioannis Kapodistrias assassination (1831) and the Land Gate (1687). Two threshold sites, a fountain, a gate – a line connecting them which for Zeppou becomes a line ritual of walking and projecting a dreamy composition of thoughts upon surfaces of fountain, streets, sidewalks and gate. A silent gesture of video light in the dark alleys of city, which lighten her steps towards a new condition. Her thoughts become a light guidance from a past to a future condition of Self (Bill Psarras, curator)
Transient Luminous Events 