With mountains, and stars, and particles
2023
This body of work titled With mountains, and stars, and particles* consists of sculptures, engravings and video referring to earthy and corporeal particularities, communication, development and relationality. Imprints, images, gestures and interiors construct a narrative of interconnectivity through which Toumpouris negotiates tendencies and nuances that are reminiscent of memories and projections to the future.
* Elgin, S.H., The Judas Rose (London: The Women’s Press, 1987), 90.
Fictitious articulations
2023, laser engraving on stainless steel, printmaking ink, bisque-fired clay (Earthenware, Terracotta and Calcium bentonite clay), solder, video on loop, no sound, 220 x 98 x 15 cm
In reflexive terms
2023, laser engraving on stainless steel, printmaking ink, bisque-fired clay (Earthenware, Earthstone, Terracotta and Calcium bentonite clay), solder, 22 x 142 x 36 cm
In temporality #3 & #2
2023, laser engraving on stainless steel, printmaking ink, rocks, 61 x 45 x 6 cm each
Studies on safe spaces (1:100)
2023, bisque-fired clay (Earthenware, Earthstone, Terracotta and Calcium bentonite clay), threaded wire, dimensions variable
In temporality #1
2023, laser engraving on stainless steel, printmaking ink, 61 x 45 x 6 cm
Photos: Mirka Koutsouri
About outlines
2023, narrated essay by Leontios Toumpouris
Text & voice: Leontios Toumpouris
Dramaturgy: Marios Konstantinou
Developed during Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency 2023
Dedicated to invented families and ancestral bonds
“The sound of a truck draws my attention and I realise that it might be time to get back. On the way to my car, I think of weeds and those unidentified plants that grew in the rather strange-looking pot a few months ago. I insisted on keeping it on the balcony as is; watering the weeds and treating them along with the succulents, the cheese plant, the ficus, the fern, and the other leafy ones. It ended up being another instance of trust that something out of place will be integrated, somehow.”
– Excerpt from Toumpouris’ essay About outlines that he narrated as part of With mountains, and stars, and particles. This piece of writing consists of an assemblage of reflections, references, fiction and autobiographical encounters, focusing on dispositions and things that are left behind.
Photo: Maria Lianou