Timothy Laskaratos (GR)
What a lovely spot
In situ Installation
Wood, barbary fig, Nasturtium seeds (Cappucin)
What if healing was another medium for claiming? What if a collective voice could be heard as a unison by walking on words?
Defining a romantic meeting point at the beach of Eleusina as his starting-point, Timothy along with the youth group Culttera, co-write and interpret a possible love script.
Gestures of healing and of claiming constitute Timothy’s work, who defines himself an artist, a gardener and a walker.
“What a lovely spot” takes shape through gestures – an in-situ installation, a collaborative publication with artist Peggy Zali, and a process of planting and replanting.
The plants are the bearers of the work’s main idea. The grafts of Barbary fig trees are taken from Lampros Eutaxias garden, and are meant to be used as a canvas on which lovers could carve their initials, thus creating an alternative monument in the city. The Nusturtium seeds, from the artist’s garden, deriving from a hermaphroditic and edible plant, open a conversation around non-heteronormative relations.
Timothy restores the wooden piers by adding new engraved planks that bear a text, the outcome of the workshops realized with Eleusina’s queer community. In this way, yet another level is added to the contemporary history of the city’s urban landscape. The documentation of the research’s process will be presented in a publication, in collaboration with artist Pegy Zali.
Curation: Yellow Brick
