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Images of worlds compositions that perform a balancing act between fragmentation and integration

Moutzouri Angeliki-Karolina

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The subject of this thesis concerns a collection of works that seek to bridge fragmentation and integration by seeking infinity within the bounds of the finite. These works appear to clash with rationalism, as the artists risk association with forces of the mythical or adopt marginal vantage points in their attempt to construct worlds. They ascribe a vitalist dimension to matter, thus risking alignment with a panpsychist ontology. Their approach to the subject matter is image-centric, with the synthesis emerging as a collection of fragmentary, imagistic episodes. Within the fragmentary form, some fragments come to formulate continuities, either by connecting to overarching or underlying structures, or by creating points of convergence with heterotopias, different temporal moments, or constructs like the recollection of a mythical past.This body of work exhibits a peculiar relationship with scale, juxtaposing the immense and the minuscule in ways that rupture form and redefine both the observer's role and perception of size. Additionally, dialectical relations engage with the concept of “externality,” as the works both contain and are contained, dispersing into the environment and forming porous boundaries—they are composed as swarms. When the causal relationship between artistic intent and representation is examined, it seems that causes arise simultaneously with effects in a series of feedback loops.

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