Hands Up, 2024, installation, engraved tablets, video, variable dimensions
In collaboration with Vasilis Galanis

Installation view at Batagianni Gallery, All the Wrong Places, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos
 

Hands Up is a multimedia installation consisting of two engraved tablets and a looped video on a cellphone. Figures of power, both ancient and contemporary, are etched on tablets accompanied by a video displaying quotes by Mark Fisher’s essay Terminator vs Avatar, (2012).

Bringing together broken electronic devices, Zeus' severed hands and digital gods waving axes, the installation investigates notions of historicity, technology and obsolescence.

Hands up, those who desire a return to the glorious past, hands up those who wish to accelerate towards a virtual future, as long as both possibilities can be imagined beyond functioning as “fully incorporated components of the [late] capitalist libidinal infrastructure”.