Destination: Iceland! - Cultural DestiNAtions at Athens International Airport continue!
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The daedal wings for the flight toward freedom
The site-specific sculptural installation ANADYSSIS II by Venia Dimitrakopoulou has found a home at the suburban railway station of Athens International Airport, adding another significant piece to the continuously evolving artistic landscape of the airport, which is constantly developing its cultural identity through numerous cultural and artistic collaborations.
The work, suspended from the dome of the suburban station, invites passersby to momentarily lift their gaze upwards and experience, even if briefly, a sense of emergence and spiritual upliftment.
A metal mesh holds and supports, while an octagonal glass dome, as a “public receiver,” welcomes words and phrases. "Ξένος. A stranger. Ξένος παντού. N’ ανήκω κάπου. To belong. Με ακούει κάνεις; My voice is not heard." Amid the words visualized to express and reflect the insecurity of the 21st-century human, large, metallic, curved forms hover.
Artist Venia Dimitrakopoulou, creator of "ANADYSIS II", states:
"I am deeply interested in creating site-specific, place-based works, which are born from and for each space in a way that is entirely organic.
An airport is a quintessential transitional space, a place of passage, where people come and go in haste because they have a clear destination. What happens when most of us seem to have lost our own destination today? Can art and the artist reverse the disorientation in which we all find ourselves, to some extent? Can the artist's voice be heard? Is the connection with others a prerequisite for even this momentary emergence? Is art one of the ways to connect and communicate with others? Can art and culture become a canopy, a refuge, a shelter? Can they become a network that connects us, while simultaneously protecting us from the insecurity of the times we are living in?"
