https://theocharisdimitris.com Dimitris Theocharis Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:56:33 +0000 https://theocharisdimitris.com en https://theocharisdimitris.com/home Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:10:38 +0000 Dimitris Theocharis https://theocharisdimitris.com/home https://theocharisdimitris.com/What-things-do Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:56:33 +0000 Dimitris Theocharis https://theocharisdimitris.com/What-things-do What things doOld steam power plant Athens, Greece 2026 <img width="3999" height="2588" width_o="3999" height_o="2588" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a38aa48700c9ec8f2032ae7c48959b7b6f7062194e994e31bf7f51efcbe99a25/5.jpg" data-mid="253860163" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a38aa48700c9ec8f2032ae7c48959b7b6f7062194e994e31bf7f51efcbe99a25/5.jpg" /> What things do, 2026 Retired awning fabric, metal structure, light sources, sound exciters, heating element, thermostat, photovoltaic panel, amplifier, microcontrollers, sensors, electronics. 450x190x128cm Old steam power plant, Athens, GreeceExpo: PPC MEETS ART Curated by Christoforos Marinos. At the center of the work is a retired awning from an Athenian house, weathered over decades and marked by fungal colonization.The installation is activated by recordings of solar radio waves captured over a full day, years ago, while the awning was still in use. This archival record of the Sun’s activity, together with real-time data from the surrounding environment, shapes the installation’s behaviour, unfolding through variations in light, vibration, and heat.The fabric’s surface becomes a site where different forms of inscription meet, each emerging through distinct material processes, technologies, and temporal scales. Material and biological traces, environmental signals, and records produced through the operation of scientific apparatuses are brought into relation. The data are drawn from the ARTEMIS–Jean-Louis Steinberg Radiospectrograph (ARTEMIS-IV) catalogue, which documents solar radio bursts across the 20–650 MHz frequency range. <img width="2904" height="2854" width_o="2904" height_o="2854" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03bb6e75f5fb33772a24bf8e604b41fa06f54cacdf08678214fe09d7755ed986/12.jpg" data-mid="253858698" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03bb6e75f5fb33772a24bf8e604b41fa06f54cacdf08678214fe09d7755ed986/12.jpg" /> <img width="3060" height="4080" width_o="3060" height_o="4080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca3ce699bbff38894580ae04a4a029d609e889e18873e42fbfd7e8d3a2f55480/7.jpg" data-mid="253858631" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca3ce699bbff38894580ae04a4a029d609e889e18873e42fbfd7e8d3a2f55480/7.jpg" /> <img width="15000" height="11444" width_o="15000" height_o="11444" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/465300a02a00aa03209fd04b5a31f09399720560d64f908b7400f7c2173fe843/s.jpg" data-mid="253888812" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/465300a02a00aa03209fd04b5a31f09399720560d64f908b7400f7c2173fe843/s.jpg" /> https://theocharisdimitris.com/A-geometry-of-togetherness Sun, 18 May 2025 09:54:03 +0000 Dimitris Theocharis https://theocharisdimitris.com/A-geometry-of-togetherness A geometry of togetherness Art Museum Z33 Hasselt, Belgium 2025 <img width="5400" height="3600" width_o="5400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c940b2bff7ec56eae747a76d190daec04ea07e47d7d4b5fda9ab296d1796f45b/1166.jpg" data-mid="233352688" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c940b2bff7ec56eae747a76d190daec04ea07e47d7d4b5fda9ab296d1796f45b/1166.jpg" /> A geometry of togetherness, 2025 Fiberglass tubes, 3D printed joints, polyester fabric, lab-developed structural colors. 450x190x128cm Z33, Hasselt, BelgiumExpo: Colour. Seeing beyond pigment Curated by Annelies Thoelen Scenography: Woman Cave Collective Photography: ©Kobe Vanderzande A Geometry of Togetherness is a large-scale kite composed of lightweight fabric and a framework of interlocking tetrahedral cells. Its structure draws inspiration from Graham Bell’s early 20th-century experimental flying machines and the collective movements of starling swarms.The kite’s surface is coated with lab-developed structural colors that echo those found in nature, such as in butterfly wings and beetle shells. Unlike pigments, structural coloration arises from nanoscale surface patterns that reflect and refract light, producing vivid hues that shift with the angle of view and changing illumination. The kite draws its overall color palette from the structural colors found in the feathers of starlings.The project explores how individual elements acquire new qualities through connection. Nanoparticles, aligned in specific arrangements, produce iridescent effects. Starlings, by following local rules and moving collectively, form flocks that offer mutual benefit. Similarly, the interlocking arrangement of tetrahedral cells gives the kite its structural strength and resilience. Whether mathematical forms, microscopic structures, or living systems, togetherness gives rise to something greater than the sum of its parts. The structural colors were developed at LABORATORIUM, the experimental biolab for art and design at KASK, Ghent, Belgium, in collaboration with scientist Maria Boto and designer Heleen Sintobin. The artwork was commissioned by Z33Museum. <img width="5400" height="3600" width_o="5400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf79216c87866a97d680a7f8d40bc63e508782b7b0218e035ddf1119adadcfe0/112.jpg" data-mid="233352032" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf79216c87866a97d680a7f8d40bc63e508782b7b0218e035ddf1119adadcfe0/112.jpg" /> Photography: ©Kobe Vanderzande <img width="4984" height="3696" width_o="4984" height_o="3696" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96fa3303ccb11cac0b18188de11931409fd3300af51f2a726901288ff57cd496/55115.jpg" data-mid="233352048" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96fa3303ccb11cac0b18188de11931409fd3300af51f2a726901288ff57cd496/55115.jpg" /> Photography: ©Kobe Vanderzande <img width="6370" height="4247" width_o="6370" height_o="4247" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff2e43224fda9086fc23dcdcc27c62d572be7aa14916daa98041f3f269c345fe/Kunstennacht_2025_Selma-Gurbuz__46.jpg" data-mid="233352601" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff2e43224fda9086fc23dcdcc27c62d572be7aa14916daa98041f3f269c345fe/Kunstennacht_2025_Selma-Gurbuz__46.jpg" /> <img width="6645" height="4430" width_o="6645" height_o="4430" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3218ec140d2869c35cc2d2362b947b68007d11381969562beb282c6b9b90ad4/Kunstennacht_Z33_2025_Selma-Gurbuz_3.jpg" data-mid="233352049" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3218ec140d2869c35cc2d2362b947b68007d11381969562beb282c6b9b90ad4/Kunstennacht_Z33_2025_Selma-Gurbuz_3.jpg" /> <img width="4241" height="6362" width_o="4241" height_o="6362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/deb0de405c5d1c710c6a2ee9b58666c37d5246f7fe228d5ba25e7f8611fb01a1/Kunstennacht_2025_Selma-Gurbuz__51.jpg" data-mid="233352635" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/deb0de405c5d1c710c6a2ee9b58666c37d5246f7fe228d5ba25e7f8611fb01a1/Kunstennacht_2025_Selma-Gurbuz__51.jpg" /> <img width="6053" height="4035" width_o="6053" height_o="4035" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36ea5fc7471f54bd42cbc1da813591f7e3f7fdb79e6e2947e88f7c55a9ab16ce/Kunstennacht_Z33_2025_Selma-Gurbuz_2.jpg" data-mid="233352636" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36ea5fc7471f54bd42cbc1da813591f7e3f7fdb79e6e2947e88f7c55a9ab16ce/Kunstennacht_Z33_2025_Selma-Gurbuz_2.jpg" /> Photography: ©Selma Gurbuz <img width="1850" height="1234" width_o="1850" height_o="1234" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe9ccd5c370469278343b87be8f72fdfc95c1c5b1b88f04b9eb8b396426bad92/113z.jpg" data-mid="233352047" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe9ccd5c370469278343b87be8f72fdfc95c1c5b1b88f04b9eb8b396426bad92/113z.jpg" /> Photography: ©Kobe Vanderzande <img width="4815" height="3210" width_o="4815" height_o="3210" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/169b7cd537aec4f8e30882c419cabb3c87249f466ca52818fc147118f64b57b8/222.jpg" data-mid="233352590" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/169b7cd537aec4f8e30882c419cabb3c87249f466ca52818fc147118f64b57b8/222.jpg" /><img width="5400" height="3600" width_o="5400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/489f90c65348a0757cf150050e87b25c2524efce141afe1bc1ccf369a561305b/114.jpg" data-mid="233352711" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/489f90c65348a0757cf150050e87b25c2524efce141afe1bc1ccf369a561305b/114.jpg" /> Photography: ©Kobe Vanderzande <img width="5400" height="3600" width_o="5400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8601a185c2dc44d906da446f8337fd24188874af681e9da4bf4544166efdf3a3/3.jpg" data-mid="233352046" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8601a185c2dc44d906da446f8337fd24188874af681e9da4bf4544166efdf3a3/3.jpg" /> https://theocharisdimitris.com/Mutual-fields Fri, 07 Nov 2025 09:05:22 +0000 Dimitris Theocharis https://theocharisdimitris.com/Mutual-fields Mutual fields <img width="4544" height="3248" width_o="4544" height_o="3248" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cd23efa50ebc528ebde145b428aa718a09e18a56bc4e44dd0ba30bc421d27fa/Chamber-of-mutuality_2025.jpg" data-mid="240362699" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4cd23efa50ebc528ebde145b428aa718a09e18a56bc4e44dd0ba30bc421d27fa/Chamber-of-mutuality_2025.jpg" /> Mutual fields, 2025 Steel shelving system, LED lights, glass tube, organic and inorganic materials, speaker, media player, amplifier, silicone rubber Copy of found bread, copper, patina 40x90(150)x180 cm. A shelving system hosts a fragment of bread, consumed by birds in the city before being retrieved and formed in copper. From human consumption to avian feeding, and back again to human regard as an artwork, the project traces the journey of this fragment as it shifts between spheres of use and attention, bearing the traces of each encounter. Torn, pecked, ignored, retrieved, and electroformed, the object accumulates gestures enacted by multiple beings, condensing urban interactions into a layered material record. Additionally, a mounted speaker directs field recordings through a glass tube filled with organic and inorganic materials. The structure recalls glass enclosures used to observe plant life, as well as early acoustic devices designed to render sound visible through the movement of matter. As vibrations travel through the tube, each element filters, reflects, and absorbs sound differently. Over time, within the enclosure, the materials dry, shift, and degrade, subtly reconfiguring the system and altering how vibration is transmitted. Together, the works explore the continuous negotiation between living and non-living agents, as energy, matter, and attention circulate and transform one another within a shared environment. <img width="5136" height="3312" width_o="5136" height_o="3312" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d37f5f060867a6428a1c8b70eccc8ed254422bd328a7648ec80d9fc38f2e54ad/hbh_2025.jpg" data-mid="240362700" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d37f5f060867a6428a1c8b70eccc8ed254422bd328a7648ec80d9fc38f2e54ad/hbh_2025.jpg" /> <img width="4711" height="3141" width_o="4711" height_o="3141" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd2e7fc082dee6c6a0cf7098deff009f1dbb0d6587cd3dc44af84042faacd207/IMG_2150.jpg" data-mid="240362693" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd2e7fc082dee6c6a0cf7098deff009f1dbb0d6587cd3dc44af84042faacd207/IMG_2150.jpg" /> <img width="4761" height="3175" width_o="4761" height_o="3175" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5b069292c59d24c504f6447667fd47b03a49c22f24aa3ba1c4eb0e927471eff/IMG_2161.jpg" data-mid="240362694" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5b069292c59d24c504f6447667fd47b03a49c22f24aa3ba1c4eb0e927471eff/IMG_2161.jpg" /> <img width="4912" height="3275" width_o="4912" height_o="3275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69af994f37eb367cc129aedbfff785aa12cb3e9a0c3df8e340339f2aadea904e/IMG_2073.jpg" data-mid="240362701" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69af994f37eb367cc129aedbfff785aa12cb3e9a0c3df8e340339f2aadea904e/IMG_2073.jpg" /> <img width="4777" height="3185" width_o="4777" height_o="3185" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e278688533f750618fb719f4e875b7f42849ada267644761282bb949782537c2/IMG_2093.jpg" data-mid="240362702" border="0" data-scale="97" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e278688533f750618fb719f4e875b7f42849ada267644761282bb949782537c2/IMG_2093.jpg" /> <img width="4854" height="3149" width_o="4854" height_o="3149" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7990aa9907242ddd43169ce944bddad190918a14cded2c2fa0c18718fc214c3/IMG_2113.jpg" data-mid="240362704" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7990aa9907242ddd43169ce944bddad190918a14cded2c2fa0c18718fc214c3/IMG_2113.jpg" /> <img width="4945" height="3035" width_o="4945" height_o="3035" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/644f0721a193b1fe3bff0e4146d4c9518a5a8d73a1a2dc29839614b7f2904450/IMG_2111.jpg" data-mid="240362703" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/644f0721a193b1fe3bff0e4146d4c9518a5a8d73a1a2dc29839614b7f2904450/IMG_2111.jpg" /> https://theocharisdimitris.com/Resonance Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:40:57 +0000 Dimitris Theocharis https://theocharisdimitris.com/Resonance Resonance Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen, Denmark 2024 <img width="5220" height="3270" width_o="5220" height_o="3270" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aff6d7e622db0bad3f9ddc4eeb321ba20a129e950eddf13bdfe6c4b0b0dd32a1/7.jpg" data-mid="214431846" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aff6d7e622db0bad3f9ddc4eeb321ba20a129e950eddf13bdfe6c4b0b0dd32a1/7.jpg" /> Resonance, 2024 Coated glass sphere, aluminum profile, wood, sensors, speaker, cables, electronics 125 x 35 x 35 cm.Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark Resonance is an artwork designed&nbsp;to react to the detection of gravitational waves caused by merging black holes or neutron stars. It receives real-time alerts from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, which detects gravitational waves coming from space through an interferometer, a device that uses laser beams to measure distortions in space smaller than a single proton. When such an alert is received, sensors embedded in the installation are activated and begin collecting data about its surrounding environment and the activity of the artwork's devices. This data shapes a unique sound composition generated in real time, emitted through a speaker housed inside a black glass sphere,&nbsp; with its physical properties influencing the final sonic output. It is as if these cosmic ripples could introduce disorder into the artwork, prompting it to generate sound waves. It is a piece that remains partially hidden until certain conditions are met, allowing the interplay between cosmic and terrestrial events to unfold. The artwork was developed during the 2024 Art &amp; Science residency organized by the STRONG Group, a research team at the Niels Bohr International Academy dedicated to gravitational wave astronomy and strong-field gravity. The piece receives real-time alerts about candidate events from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. It is on permanent display at the NBI building. <img width="4128" height="6192" width_o="4128" height_o="6192" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9314093bd4ea761860e651ba704127317a0a015151006fea5ebc113ebc1f738/1.jpg" data-mid="214431841" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9314093bd4ea761860e651ba704127317a0a015151006fea5ebc113ebc1f738/1.jpg" /> <img width="5879" height="3919" width_o="5879" height_o="3919" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6297de8b6b98f6b3370e9052a8f559f4447134dd6117d93a6d60bc3300992e20/6.jpg" data-mid="214431845" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6297de8b6b98f6b3370e9052a8f559f4447134dd6117d93a6d60bc3300992e20/6.jpg" /> https://theocharisdimitris.com/It-s-all-about-trust Sat, 30 Sep 2023 11:05:56 +0000 Dimitris Theocharis https://theocharisdimitris.com/It-s-all-about-trust It’s all about trust De Verffabriek Ghent, Belgium 2023 <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7bf2a5d60d6c80236a937f18268c6f306686910148afc6c1aab8e8385796ef9d/It-s-all-about-trust-exhibition-view.jpg" data-mid="238495594" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7bf2a5d60d6c80236a937f18268c6f306686910148afc6c1aab8e8385796ef9d/It-s-all-about-trust-exhibition-view.jpg" /> It’s all about trust, 2023Exhibition viewDe Verffabriek, Ghent, Belgium The exhibition examines time, trust, causality, and phenomena beyond direct experience. At its core is the artist’s decision to transfer every light source from his home into the exhibition space, leaving his residence in complete darkness. This act invites questions about evidence, belief, and the limits of perception, while also considering how tools and instruments shape what we are able to observe and understand. <img width="5060" height="3374" width_o="5060" height_o="3374" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72892872663e57bcc18b711769adda00fb9fcc647d4ad37725c238d3185b1bae/It-s-all-about-trust-all-the-lights-of-my-house.jpg" data-mid="238495592" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72892872663e57bcc18b711769adda00fb9fcc647d4ad37725c238d3185b1bae/It-s-all-about-trust-all-the-lights-of-my-house.jpg" /> It’s all about trust, 2023Exhibition viewDe Verffabriek, Ghent, Belgium Ceiling and floor lights, desk lamps, bedside lamps, and hallway and bathroom fixtures, all the light sources from the artist’s home, have been relocated to the exhibition space, leaving his residence in complete darkness for the duration of the exhibition. Can the work serve as evidence of an unseen event beyond the exhibition space? If so, does the spectator become a witness? This piece relies on trust as the audience cannot verify the claim but only accept the artist’s account. What does the artist’s home look like without light? Where would these lamps be if not here? Likewise, where else might I be if not in this space? These imagined scenarios remain speculative, known but never experienced. This piece is an act of reasoning, trust, and cost-sharing. <img width="1113" height="1107" width_o="1113" height_o="1107" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82c2476690d940623b1301c0b1ec70a2b0429604042ad9259d7cd124689c1c9c/All-the-lights-of-my-house.jpg" data-mid="238495591" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82c2476690d940623b1301c0b1ec70a2b0429604042ad9259d7cd124689c1c9c/All-the-lights-of-my-house.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ff723b30fb0628c78b6031469d57fa66c38f37b3a46e3cda0958ca114538b2c/All-the-lights-of-my-house-detail1.jpg" data-mid="238495590" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ff723b30fb0628c78b6031469d57fa66c38f37b3a46e3cda0958ca114538b2c/All-the-lights-of-my-house-detail1.jpg" />All the lights of my house, 2023Domestic lights, vinyl, wooden platform 220 x 220 cm. De Verffabriek, Ghent, Belgium The exhibition also features a ceiling-mounted holographic fan that recreates the color of a star as it would appear to the human eye in space. The device displays a bright bluish disk, with its color derived from studies that analyze stellar spectra and translate this information into a representative hue, much like how our eyes perceive light through cone cells. Rapidly spinning RGB LEDs create the illusion of a continuously glowing star. Through simulations, models, and instruments, we extend our vision, study celestial bodies beyond our reach, and perceive scales that would otherwise remain inaccessible. This levitating, rotating blue disk offers a glimpse of a star’s color as if seen directly, and at the same time functions as an allusion to something that exists independently and in the absence of any direct human observer. The presented color is derived from the available database provided by Jan-Vincent Harre and Rene Heller, "Digital color codes of stars," Astronomical Notes, 2021. <img width="1135" height="1512" width_o="1135" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/140a6233fd024ee0fe2f4ca24d0f9829fa3417c2b855660b738df469b2e35e1a/StarO6V.jpg" data-mid="238495595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/140a6233fd024ee0fe2f4ca24d0f9829fa3417c2b855660b738df469b2e35e1a/StarO6V.jpg" />Star (O6V), 2023 Holographic fan, RGB color 60x5cm.De Verffabriek, Ghent, Belgium From time to time, whistling sounds echo through the space, accompanied by flickering light from two ceiling-mounted screens. The brightness of the light shifts in response to the intensity of each whistle. These sounds come from a wooden whistle, crafted from a branch of a sweet chestnut tree that took root outside the city in the early 17th century. Its construction follows a simple method with origins tracing back to the Middle Iron Age. This interplay of sound and light emerges from a fusion of elements, materials, and technologies, each rooted in different eras and regions, converging in a single moment. <img width="1443" height="1924" width_o="1443" height_o="1924" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b8e55fbede872618b982e75a947ac2461abbc0974f6a56848ca3d63a3752e5f/Under-the-light-of-a-Sweet-Chestnut-Tree.jpg" data-mid="238495597" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b8e55fbede872618b982e75a947ac2461abbc0974f6a56848ca3d63a3752e5f/Under-the-light-of-a-Sweet-Chestnut-Tree.jpg" /> Under the light of a chestnut tree, 2023 Screens, ceiling mount, speaker, color, sound De Verffabriek, Ghent, Belgium <img width="4333" height="2197" width_o="4333" height_o="2197" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/265e234acbdfd0f3c3184c271bc94c02240d0ac2420de8263a68aa4c4952019b/Sweet-Chestnut-Tree-whistle.jpg" data-mid="238495596" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/265e234acbdfd0f3c3184c271bc94c02240d0ac2420de8263a68aa4c4952019b/Sweet-Chestnut-Tree-whistle.jpg" /> Wooden whistle crafted from a branch of a Monumental sweet chestnut tree https://theocharisdimitris.com/If-we-watch-long-enough Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:12:29 +0000 Dimitris Theocharis https://theocharisdimitris.com/If-we-watch-long-enough If we watch long enough Berg van Barmhartigheid Ghent, Belgium 2022 <img width="3176" height="3456" width_o="3176" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9d688af2bd3cd52817230bd2998a6b9a5601c5c9d2674b9c7914f8a25ae78b7/2.jpg" data-mid="241790014" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9d688af2bd3cd52817230bd2998a6b9a5601c5c9d2674b9c7914f8a25ae78b7/2.jpg" /> If we watch long enough, 2023PVC window film Berg van Barmhartigheid , Ghent, Belgium A thermal camera was used to capture the heat emitted from the window’s surface on a sunny day. Multiple images of the entire glass surface were collected, one for each pane of glass, and then printed on PVC sticker film. These printed films were reapplied to the window, each aligned with the corresponding measured area. This translucent material allows exterior light to color the hall’s interior with shades derived from the thermal patterns of that particular summer day. The window bears traces of its former state, and the sunlight that warmed the glass the day of the measurement now continues as the source that colors the interior in yellowish hues. Here, the act of measuring interferes, imprints, and leaves behind traces that shape what is observed. The window is transformed into a layered surface, at once itself and its record, past and present, doubled by its own capture. <img width="4912" height="3456" width_o="4912" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5755ce23c358056acc2bfedf58da37fb99e50ad9da0615be43f0edab2aa80bcc/3.jpg" data-mid="241790017" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5755ce23c358056acc2bfedf58da37fb99e50ad9da0615be43f0edab2aa80bcc/3.jpg" /><img width="4413" height="3123" width_o="4413" height_o="3123" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9b1a9aa26c4ca89f1e412c2ce8e60792b47d69f01ab7b7d641bfc3f4cf68d8f/4.jpg" data-mid="241790018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9b1a9aa26c4ca89f1e412c2ce8e60792b47d69f01ab7b7d641bfc3f4cf68d8f/4.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/595a080b22a25e397701b70f6bee422ada603cfb3baecbf118c234301a2d7cc6/1.jpg" data-mid="241790016" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/595a080b22a25e397701b70f6bee422ada603cfb3baecbf118c234301a2d7cc6/1.jpg" /> https://theocharisdimitris.com/The-analysis-of-reality-produces-reality Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:59:17 +0000 Dimitris Theocharis https://theocharisdimitris.com/The-analysis-of-reality-produces-reality The analysis of reality produces reality Polo del ‘900 Turin, Italy 2022 <img width="5006" height="3337" width_o="5006" height_o="3337" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7edf9cce7ab6566cb246f89c9d1c9834daea58c484cef98b41ee545a548a7e7/Every-food-is-a-Landscape.1.jpg" data-mid="160627837" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7edf9cce7ab6566cb246f89c9d1c9834daea58c484cef98b41ee545a548a7e7/Every-food-is-a-Landscape.1.jpg" /> The analysis of reality produces reality, 2022Engraved potatoes Polo del ‘900, Turin, Italy Expo: Every food is a landscape Curated by Marco Trulli A network of engraved triangles spreads across the potato’s surface, beginning from a single hexagon and expanding outward. This triangulation assigns a topological invariant to the potato: the Euler characteristic, defined by the number of formed vertices, edges, and faces. The very act of engraving initiates the processes it seeks to trace, accelerating the potato’s decomposition and the deformation of the triangles on its surface. As time passes, the potato softens and deforms, the incisions deepen, darken, and stretch. Yet the triangulated pattern persists, as the initial triangles are remapped into newly deformed forms, preserving the number of vertices, edges, and faces, that is, embodying the invariant character of the Euler characteristic. Here, natural decay echoes the transformations studied in topology, dissolving boundaries between matter and analysis, abstract change, and change in time. Through this interplay, the potato is at once simply a vegetable and a mathematical model. An organism, a record, and a transformation: a surface where abstraction, change, and decay coincide. <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c20bf36689607e2658baf88478b29d9c40edacbdbd265b50174fc036c771a6a/Every-food-is-a-Landscape-8.jpg" data-mid="160629132" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c20bf36689607e2658baf88478b29d9c40edacbdbd265b50174fc036c771a6a/Every-food-is-a-Landscape-8.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee34c6921ea7a29daef3abca9cf68a75983a0e1288e0bfbc7961557a5c049c86/Every-food-is-a-Landscape-7.jpg" data-mid="160629131" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee34c6921ea7a29daef3abca9cf68a75983a0e1288e0bfbc7961557a5c049c86/Every-food-is-a-Landscape-7.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e62babc43212a6bcae297170a7567ff9ad6bc784031c0458142d43b5411ce7d/Every-food-is-a-Landscape-4.jpg" data-mid="160628511" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e62babc43212a6bcae297170a7567ff9ad6bc784031c0458142d43b5411ce7d/Every-food-is-a-Landscape-4.jpg" /> <img width="3804" height="2744" width_o="3804" height_o="2744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de86d9b100b8a239939e8374ab6b77867bf295472d128c69d8e70731d64ef593/2.jpg" data-mid="159854002" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de86d9b100b8a239939e8374ab6b77867bf295472d128c69d8e70731d64ef593/2.jpg" /> <img width="3804" height="2744" width_o="3804" height_o="2744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7b79e983b5ab8055c65078d5ae6237139a11035a6c7bb67105c6d815b9dbdcf/1.1.jpg" data-mid="159854004" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7b79e983b5ab8055c65078d5ae6237139a11035a6c7bb67105c6d815b9dbdcf/1.1.jpg" /> <img width="3804" height="2744" width_o="3804" height_o="2744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c32bbabb3e510a0a322df7e4e903d83448299d453b8fef70d8909d32e62864cf/potato2.jpg" data-mid="159854005" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c32bbabb3e510a0a322df7e4e903d83448299d453b8fef70d8909d32e62864cf/potato2.jpg" /><img width="3804" height="2744" width_o="3804" height_o="2744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26341f70a63e34372cb0d3509e552c3f20d0ec500f2c45f6a213e1277497b08b/4.1.jpg" data-mid="159854003" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26341f70a63e34372cb0d3509e552c3f20d0ec500f2c45f6a213e1277497b08b/4.1.jpg" /> https://theocharisdimitris.com/Helices Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:47:03 +0000 Dimitris Theocharis https://theocharisdimitris.com/Helices Helices Het Hem Zaandam, the Netherlands 2020 <img width="4808" height="2990" width_o="4808" height_o="2990" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06acedf87a82b4e9eb34cd1b99a1f918c5e6ef4339d9929b1137c74539a25336/exhib-view.jpg" data-mid="233352807" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06acedf87a82b4e9eb34cd1b99a1f918c5e6ef4339d9929b1137c74539a25336/exhib-view.jpg" /> Helices, 2020 Installation view, het Hem, Zaandam, the Netherlands. Two videos play simultaneously on a continuous loop, serving as both batons and timekeepers. . A printed schedule documenting the actual feeding process of two snakes is mounted high on an adjacent wall. The third component of the installation is a hole cut into a window, with an object based on Galileo’s notes suspended within it. The three elements form a miniature system of celestial bodies, measurements, and digestive enzymes. <img width="5030" height="3169" width_o="5030" height_o="3169" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9de47397fce08eaa9f05828ea41bf3cb46f384a033710e008a4a20b196978357/6.jpg" data-mid="87663266" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9de47397fce08eaa9f05828ea41bf3cb46f384a033710e008a4a20b196978357/6.jpg" /> In 1610, Galileo recorded the changing positions of Jupiter’s moons, marking each observation in ink alongside its corresponding time. These drawings were more than representations of celestial bodies; they were material records of motion, translating astronomical observations into shareable knowledge. In this piece, a circular hole was cut into a window, and within it, one of Galileo’s notes depicting Callisto has been cast in resin and suspended. Subject to the wind, it moves freely, continuing to interact with its environment as a material that shapes perception and thought. <img width="1527" height="1080" width_o="1527" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f7a3d93cbec5b66cbf1928d2f323a85ebf5a1468a7fbad3ed0bddc7969e19f8/kontino-galileo.jpg" data-mid="118905587" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f7a3d93cbec5b66cbf1928d2f323a85ebf5a1468a7fbad3ed0bddc7969e19f8/kontino-galileo.jpg" /> Callisto, 2020Glass resin, nylon wire. Two screens play in a continuous loop; the videos function as timekeepers, each accompanied by a soundscape that amplifies the room’s hypnotic atmosphere. Onscreen, digital reconstructions of real objects rotate slowly and steadily around their axes. <img width="6245" height="4689" width_o="6245" height_o="4689" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00532a3624c11594fbd0431f68d8c8f1bbb5f38d208b8ea2cd34101fced0b374/CF269928.jpg" data-mid="87683341" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00532a3624c11594fbd0431f68d8c8f1bbb5f38d208b8ea2cd34101fced0b374/CF269928.jpg" /> helices 2, 2020 CGI video, wood, speakers. Photography © Fan Liao <img width="4735" height="6346" width_o="4735" height_o="6346" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8112acb291d273fb312f5e9c94ffa37b88d173222318fc77db64a44b66ce294d/CF269931.jpg" data-mid="87643929" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8112acb291d273fb312f5e9c94ffa37b88d173222318fc77db64a44b66ce294d/CF269931.jpg" /> Photography © Fan Liao<img width="4865" height="6520" width_o="4865" height_o="6520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e06a573c98f946d0ebea12b3c9109fd3493fa3ccd7dc6d21d411f9cf55395771/CF269951.jpg" data-mid="87685820" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e06a573c98f946d0ebea12b3c9109fd3493fa3ccd7dc6d21d411f9cf55395771/CF269951.jpg" /> helices 1, 2020 CGI video, wood, hanging straps, speakers.Photography ©Fan Liao <img width="800" height="1199" width_o="800" height_o="1199" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9904726db49a00d1cf2b64c7138dbe7e643d57c160bddda07ff12bc34f38e2c9/sandberg_instituut_graduation_2020_dimitris_theocharis_fine_arts_photo_by_sander_van_wettum_lr_2.jpg" data-mid="233705800" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/9904726db49a00d1cf2b64c7138dbe7e643d57c160bddda07ff12bc34f38e2c9/sandberg_instituut_graduation_2020_dimitris_theocharis_fine_arts_photo_by_sander_van_wettum_lr_2.jpg" /> The duration of the exhibition is mapped into a graph documenting the feeding and digestion cycles of two snakes living in a pet shop 30 kilometres from the exhibition space, where Mr. Frank works. The different nutritional needs of the two animals determine the intervals between feedings and the time required for each cycle to begin again, generating a pattern that structures the feeder’s weekly routine. This pattern emerges from the intersection of the snakes’ digestive cycles, the methods of their pictorial representation, and Mr. Frank’s attentive care. <img width="5322" height="4423" width_o="5322" height_o="4423" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23bf6017a4f98826f7bdee6a8f41bda37cccb7a5c6ea37bd5e076c76c5618541/mr-frank.jpg" data-mid="117918495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23bf6017a4f98826f7bdee6a8f41bda37cccb7a5c6ea37bd5e076c76c5618541/mr-frank.jpg" />Mr Frank’s schedule, 2020 Print on paper, 45x35 cm. https://theocharisdimitris.com/contact Fri, 06 Nov 2020 18:05:00 +0000 Dimitris Theocharis https://theocharisdimitris.com/contact contact ︎&nbsp; theocharis.di@gmail.com&nbsp; &nbsp;