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The Island4/10/08 – 1/11/08an art project conceived and curated by the artists: Kostas Bassanos, Martha Dimitropoulou, Takis Germenis, Vangelis Gokas, Giorgos Gyparakis, Apostolos Karakatsanis, Maro Michalakakos, Nina Papaconstantinou, Beatrice Plumet, Yiannis Theodoropoulos.
Having William Dafoe's Robinson Crusoe as a starting point, the exhibition evolves between the fiction and the reality, the utopian secluded paradise and the ethical dilemmas that man is confronted with. The Island is the place where dwelling equals self-knowledge, in a pre-capitalistic colonial model of life, which reproduces in its basics human civilization. The artists attempt a contemporary reading of Dafoe’s work, opening up its possible approaches and interpretations, in order to bring forward certain peculiarities interwoven with man’s hegemonic and inquisitive nature. The Island is paradise on earth, both a refuge and a prison, a place which disrupts the convention of time, where Robinson puts his powers to the test, he imposes himself on the island, setting boundaries and declaring himself absolute sovereign.
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