Original artwork description:

The artwork was exhibited in "PLATFORMS PROJECT" in Athens, 2021 with "Cyborg/asma" group, curated by Faye Tzanetoulakou.
Cyborg/asma is a dystopian area where everything operates virtually in a state of mechanical freedom, a modern Metropolis say, where even lovemaking takes place as a technological process.
In my artwork, Cyborg/asma is a spiral, unreal labyrinth, with traps and baits. From my point of view, what makes me feel most uncomfortable about living "virtually", is the danger of a rapid and vast exposure of my life, my ideology etc. The sense that I can't control what I reveal and to whom as I would do when I stand in front of a certain person in real life.
One of my most common anxiety dreams is being unable to find a toilet where I can get some privacy. I only find toilets with less than four walls, or without ceiling, with transparent or half doors, flooded, dirty, with broken handles, etc. I believe that those dreams reveal my unease that I might be overexposed.
In this dystopian area you can also find erotic devices that operate with algorithms, based on that words you choose while texting.
Other personal symbols are also used such as cherries for sexual desire and a floating mechanical eye or black liquids for patriarchal control.

Materials used:

ballpoint pen, tempera

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