Paper
Love
Perrakis Papers meets Stratis Tavlaridis
Athens | 2023
Paper and Culture. Two words that complement each other and one exists because of the other. The artistic expression on special papers is a living example of their original coexistence.People, throughout the ages, used to express love by writing letters to each other on paper. To carve their initials on matter, on stones, on marbles, on the fresh cement of the urban landscape.
The recording of an incompatible love on handmade Asian papers of a few grams, cut by hand with a surgical scalpel using the papercut technique. An exhibition - diary which was inspired, created and presented in Perrakis papers. The artworks were accompanied by the lyrics from the poem written by Gerasimos Evagelatos for my exhibition "Paper Love", inspired by Hesiod's “Theogony".
Thinking that time will not wear him down.
But they wear out, they change.
Everything changes.
In the beginning there was Chaos. First generation Erebus and Night, second Aether and Day.
And then there was born the One, the indivisible.
Made of Night and Day.
Until they were divided... and on the one side Half...
And on the other side, the other Half...
To look for each other through time..
and be
touched
only
fleetingly.
Elsewhere…
otherwise
the
one Half...
Elsewhere…
otherwise
the
other Half.
To leave traces where they can…
To be touched only fleetingly.
Photo | Giangos Papadopoulos
Text | Gerasimos Evangelatos
Red crown
2022
Handmade paper
from Japan
21gr
25 x 25 cm
Για να
αγγίζονται
μονάχα
φευγαλέα.