ALTER EGO | Maria Papadimitriou
Having a chat with my alter ego as it looks on my holding two pairs of scissors and slowly cutting my hair. Sometimes it encourages me and at other times, it tries to stop me.
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The theme is change of self-image, through body Interference, a kind of disfigurement. This image is a kind of game I am playing with myself. The deeper message being the thin borderline between paranoia and extremist self-expression. It is essentially: a parody of loneliness and isolation, and the existential void which evolves from the present situation.
Artist: Maria Papadimitriou
Title of the work (if titled): ALTER EGO
Edition (if applicable): 3
Year: 2020
Medium: Video
Duration: 2΄42΄΄
Concept, Direction & Apperance: Maria Papadimitriou
Voice over: Tessa Kouroukli Clark
Editing: Stefanos Papageorgiou
Production Management: Temporary Autonomous Museum for All
This artwork was created in the context of ENTER project, an initiative of Onassis Foundation. Onassis Stegi and Onassis USA give artists from all around the world 120 hours to create from home a series of new original commissions; sharing their new reality. Let’s ENTER.
