Delphian Landscapes is an underwater site specific, light installation project that takes place in Corinth (Greece) an area well known for its dense sea history. The video documentation of the work produced in-situ by OMIO will be reworked and restructured within the exhibition space thus forming a new body of work and opening an alternate dialogue compared to the original material filmed. The video is focussed on placing lights on ancient structures lost in the depths of the sea. The final work will be presented in the white space in comparison to videos by Hyperlink Athens that document the light pollution that is emitted by the industrial zone that surround the area where the project takes place. The final installation within the white space gives a glimpse of what once was, a view of the power of nature to reclaim all that we as humans construct thus revealing the strictly ephemeral nature of our own existence. SPLIT WINDOW is a series of events and exhibitions imagined by Elise Poitevin + Anne Vimeux (SISSI, Marseilles) which is part of Manifesta 13 Les Parallèles du Sud, with the support of the Region Sud.
SPLIT WINDOW is a series of events and exhibitions scheduled throughout the biennal around an authentic dialogue between Athens and Marseilles. By making the Mediterranean Sea a new axis of European identity, an area of contiguity, the project focuses on the issues of North / South duality inherent to the positioning of SISSI, while opening a horizontal space of exchange between East and West. A rare symbolic power emanates from Athens and Marseilles.
Ancient cities, marked by their history, they anchor their identity and prestige in their antique roots. Cradle of European civilisation for one, oldest French city for the other, they have in common the fact that they are both large trading and transit ports. They are today, by their spirit of resistance and their « outsiders » image in the contemporary world, real experimental plateforms for the future. Oracular, predictive, even pre-apocalyptic cities, they invite us to think about both the collapse of Western societies and the outreach of marginalised populations.
Opening the 12th of November from 18.00 to 22.00.
A proposal by SISSI.
Curated by Hyperlink Athens in collaboration with Omio Athens.
