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The Journey of a Manifesto
In her recent work, Marina Olympios places in the centre of her
action a mental and spiritual walk that aims to start the thread
that will unite her personal story with the history of the world. In
this unfolding of unknown aspects of the world and of life there is
no beginning and no end. Printed photographs, videos and paintings
act as testimonies of this journey, to which the artist confers a
deep spiritual dimension. If one never writes only by the hand, but
also the foot definitely needs to participate, as Nietzsche said,
underlining the important role of walking in the process of
thinking, for Marina Olympios this action is an integral part of the
creative process. Not the idle walk, but the walk of search, of
exploration, of intense involvement not only of the body, but also
of the spirit and the soul.
Without forgetting that the exploration of virgin areas and the
search for myths and stories has been an important part of the work
of Land Artists, for Marina Olympios this search also relates to the
reinterpretation of the concept of the «sacred element», of which
she searches for the various expressions, beyond any specific
religious tone, in the field of art and nature. It is with a very
special mysticism that Olympios as an artist, a woman, a mother and
a scientist of gemmology faces the earth in different parts of the
horizon.
With the cognitive association of cultures that flourished at the
same time without ever meeting, Olympios creates a kind of unified
cognitive geography. Finding incredible correspondences between
these far-off cultures, she invokes a kind of utopia, where
fragmentation results in a perfectly harmonious mental and spiritual
reunion. In her anxiousness to map the landscapes, which she records
with her photo or video camera, she spontaneously attempts a
purifying taxonomic process: nothing should be lost – and she should
be able to share them all... |
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