à partir de ce rosier le monde commence
On the Threshold of a Beginning
In his new solo exhibition, On the Threshold of a Beginning, Vasilis Zografos presents an allegory of the imperceptible manifestations of destiny through an experimentation with the connective logics of the organic and the inorganic, appearance and concealment, purity and heterogeneity. The visible becomes inexplicable. The painted images establish a welcomed zone of indeterminacy. A melancholic veil comes to suggest the inability of humans to transcend their nature, the negative imprint of their actions. This life-form largely shapes Zografos’ color palette, emphasizing shades of gray. His fundamental intent is the rendering of the same thing repeated differently—displaced images of behaviors that appear in another phenotype. In folk tradition, plants conceal human passions. Zografos employs this schema as a transformative illusion and a temporality of intent. Melancholy is placed at the beginning—when one can still think, pose and be posed within processes, open up the horizon, engage in revisions; to follow the path of art, the logic of great coexistence, the significance of the insignificant, the fulfillment of small things. In his works, we observe the absence of outbursts, the absence of events. The images of organic matter are mediated by the stability of inorganic structure. Roses coexist with crystals. Mortality with non-human duration. The manifestations and enactments of destiny shift, making possible the apprehension of change in crystalline structure as a metaphor for self-improvement. Zografos activates an intelligent play of mirroring and transpositions for the survival of the human in the face of its guilt. Can there be a better possible world? The grand question of destiny is replaced by its individual fulfillments. Fortune ensures its realization on all levels. The vast survives within the small, and life itself within its own movement.

Thomas Symeonidis