The video work of Kalliopi Lemos, “Irrevocable Transformations” represents the wilful intention of the artist to interfere into the complications of comprehending the ongoing obscurity of the war, terror and the endless misery of people doomed to live within this crisis. In addition to her work series exploiting the ambiguous journeys of refugees and immigrants through the installations of abandoned boats realised in Greece, Turkey, Berlin and France since 2006, she showcases another metaphor, which is a figurative and audio-visual mode of representation of the human psychology within the existing conditions. The central figure in the video is a man, performed by Paolo Musio, a gifted Italian actor, balancing or surviving on a dangerously disposed platform. The iron platform moving circularly is a metaphor for the insecurity we feel between hope and despair.
Kalliopi Lemos is a London-based sculptor, painter and installation artist. She studied painting and printing at Byam Shaw School of Art, University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins, where she also pursued postgraduate studies in painting. Lemos creates big-scale public installations, challenging the viewer, with the focus on human rights, the issue of increasing global undocumented migration and female oppression. She also has made a series of films, where she creates objects (sculptures), which she uses to generate the storyline of the film around those objects. During the last decade Lemos has exhibited extensively in various international venues. Kalliopi Lemos’ work can be found in private collections and on permanent public displays in Onassis Cultural Foundation in New York, the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Benaki Museum and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, the Bilgi University in Istanbul and in Canakkale.
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