NIKOS KOKKALIS
HOMELAND

Four Images from the Homelands
Flour Mills – Old Fortress, Corfu

Exhibition Duration: Wednesday, November 27 – Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Visiting Hours: 18:00 – 20:30 daily
Opening: Wednesday, November 27, at 20:00

Nikolas Kokkalis presents the HOMELAND installation at the Flour Mills of the Old Fortress in Corfu, continuing his exploration of the poetic recording of human existence in a specific space and moment. Inspired by the concept of “homelands” — not necessarily geographical — the HOMELAND video installation addresses memory, both collective and individual, and the stereotypes it carries. It raises questions such as: How much memory do we own? How much are we allowed to delve into the memory of others? Ultimately, are we “illegal spectators” in someone else’s memory? Moreover, HOMELAND is a tribute to the Image — the black-and-white, the color, the still, the moving, or the non-existent.

With the subtitle “Four Images from the Homelands,” the modular installation unfolds in four locations/images:

Introduction (After the Celebration)
Place I (The Mother – The Father)
Place II (The Table)
Place III (The Bride)

The viewer is invited to follow a journey through external and internal “landscapes.”

In HOMELAND, visual motifs from previous works return: Encased everyday objects, elliptical written messages, the image of the bride, the autonomy of the light source, etc. There are also references to his 2006 work Dark Light City, which “sees” the city of birth as a person shouting its desires, expectations, and fears. A place that loves, takes revenge, and is constantly both present and lost.

From the poem of I. Polemis, who at the beginning of the 20th century asks, “What is our homeland?” to the words of Antuanetta Angelidi from the 1985 film Topos: “The birthplace is not the place where we were born; it can only be a spot,” and through fragments of memory that sometimes reveal and sometimes overlap, the HOMELAND installation refers to a Memory that is often constructed, sometimes guided, and almost always distorted.

This exhibition is part of the events marking the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Department of Arts, Sound, and Image at the Ionian University.

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Homeland Exhibition at the Flour Mills, Old Fortress, until 10/12/2024

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