Bourboulakia
2025
mastiha, marble pedestal
h: 5cm X w: 1.5cm
Frank Mohr Institute / Jan 2025 / Groningen
Praxis. The second row turns to the act. What does making reveal about the maker? Is every praxis irreversible? At what point do we reach greed?
Chrisis. In Greek meaning: the way we use or value. What is the worth of a gift? How do values shift across centuries and hands? Who has access to what is considered precious, and where does the golden mean lie between use and exploitation?
Katharsis. The final row confronts what the whole work has been circling: death, time, and the desire for permanence. The melting surfaces perform the answer. Time is not linear but subjective, responsive, alive. Immortality, this work proposes, is not the absence of death. It is the refusal to remain silent in the face of it.
Kentima takes its name from the ancient technique of scoring the tree to release its resin. A wound that is also a beginning. The door becomes a portal, the panels become confession, and the material, in its slow transformation, becomes the only honest narrator.
Evangelia Moschou 