The artwork “Punching a hole in the water” is a video that presents a series of actions and recordings inside seawater. The goal is to intensify the conversation and the questions about the openess on the subject of failure. The project describes the free journey in the sea until a minor weather change sinks the vessel. It is a metaphorical and a literal attempt to move water by submerging an empty barrel and temporarily leveling off its mouth to the sea surface, thus creating a void, a paradox, a hole in the water. In its literal dimension, this is a failed action by definition, doomed to fail sooner or later. The small hole, the empty vessel that floats and tries to balance in the sea surface, as an activity of man confronting the vastness of the water element follows its own laws and rules; It is realizable only for a few brief moments in the stillness of the surface, since it submerges again after a few hours, and the natural order of things is reestablished.

Exhibition: the symptom 05 / failure, curation: Theodore Zafiropoulos, Amfissa 2014

CREDITS

Artistic collaborator for sound and video editing: Vasilis Kountouris (studio 19)
Special thanks to: Panagiotis Kolokathis