Nikos Papadopoulos has the ability to transform situations, situations that are not attractive, such as images and objects that refer to an atmosphere of hospitalization or even alleviated violence. This exhibition includes images of armed citizens, from soldier to staid family man, that aim to represent the hostile, brutal conditions we passively accept on a daily basis from the comfortable position of our sofa's or even beds.
Nikos Papadopoulos has the ability to transform situations, situations that are not attractive, such as images and objects that refer to an atmosphere of hospitalization or even alleviated violence. This exhibition includes images of armed citizens, from soldier to staid family man, that aim to represent the hostile, brutal conditions we passively accept on a daily basis from the comfortable position of our sofa’s or even beds. The star ninja or the armed citizens reproduced mechanically and with a general rate stubborn, manic drab make a wallpaper image. The aggressive image so as rhythmically come back like a seal, alianeted. By this way, the viewers accept this uncomfortable background through our inaction. We are the recipient of brutality which we devour passively, with a softness almost hypnotic, and the culmination is the perforated bed, which seems to have been riddled with bullets of armed figure, which is the background.
Papadopoulos also proposes a number of innocent, harmless objects lurking. With a surgically designs and objects such as logs a candlestick, a electric cable, a pair of scissors, a razor, etc. The artist transforms into the incriminating objects-witnesses of a possible violent behavior. The wallpaper that does seem more like a protective mesh than with a decorative pattern harmless. Household items are so alienated from the bourgeois environment seem to be evidence of a possible crime.
In this exhibition a single artwork that carries out the bridge with the earlier work that moved around the concept of nursing. This is a leatherette, which on the one side looks like a toy consisting of coloured “pawns-head” while on the other side we see that these coloured head end in needles. In this project, as in other works in the exhibition shows, there is a delicate balance between the painless and the sharp.
Christina Petrinou
Art historian
