SOM
2020
Laser engravings on leather, spray dye, mild steel, carbon steel, bisque fired clay (Stoneware, Earthenware, Earthstone and Calcium Bentonite), dimensions variable
Hand gestures that Toumpouris employed in his recent practice through making are registered on the ceramics and the leather pieces suggesting a choreography under development; a vocabulary of indexicality, compressed, cropped, flattened and distorted.
SOM* is indicative of Toumpouris’ interest in various aspects of language and making as a method to explore, identify and share potentials and tendencies in intuitively choreographed instances of body and matter correlations.
*Studies On Mutability
Photos: Mirka Koutsouri