Nektarios Pappas

A chair immobilised in time in an unbalanced position. A dog, also motionless, is so faithful that it has become objectified. The dog detects and recognises the threat responding in a stereotypical and mechanical way, in threat. The surroundings. An image of repetition, alienation, solitude and abandonment. In this work, Nektarios Pappas identifies in reality a kind of suspension that is torturously repetitive over the void, as archetypically is any act of suspension. However, he chooses to render it motionless, trying not to place it in a balanced position or to find peace or a gateway from the Sisyphean repetition. Like a photographic moment, he turns our attention to the moment of suspending, which without the forces exercised on the body during movement, this state seems precarious indicating its risk. This condition has the value of a rule that every movement as conventional, repetitive and predictable may be, is full of risky moments – fateful moments. Let alone the outside world, out of this room.