Funerary Stele
Project for a projection in a museum, 2026
The funerary stele of Democleides, son of Demetrios, ΔΗΜΟΚΛΕΙΔΗΣ:ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟ, probably killed in the Battle of Nemea in 394 BC, at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
In the space below the deceased, originally painted blue to suggest the sea, an empty migrant boat apears.
The Mediterranean Sea, an open-air graveyard…
→ Text by the art historian Marina Lambraki Plaka
Nada
Postcards and an engraved polished black granite tablet, kept in its original packaging, 2025, a tribute to Goya’s famous etching of the Disasters of War.
The work has been shown at the exhibition Postcards and Mail Art, at the art space Immanence, Paris, in November-December 2025.
This work could very well represent “the artist’s final piece”.
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Nada. Ello dirá. - Nothing. The event will tell. (in the sense of All that for nothing…)
The Disasters of War, pl. No. 69, Francisco de Goya, 1810-1815, Prado, Madrid -
Nada, postcard, 2025 -
Nada, epitaph plaque, 2025 -
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Postcards and Mail Art, Immanence, Paris, 2025 -
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The postcard editions Entre!, Point of View, Roma 2000 and Nada, among many others, on the wall at Immanence -
Everything must go
The famous slogan announcing clearance sales, “Everything must go” becomes, when engraved on black polished granite, a philosophical memento mori not just of any individual destiny, but also an epitaph of our hyper-consumerist way of life…
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The work was part of the exhibition Uncommon Bases at Galerie Fernand Léger, the Ivry-sur-Seine municipal gallery of contemporary art, in 2025.
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Tout doit disparaître in the exhibition Uncommon Bases, Galerie Fernand Léger, Ivry-sur-Seine, 2025 -
Fatal Error
A computer screen capture with a “fatal error” message engraved on a black polished granite plaque: The unfathomable mystery of life and death finds its reflection in the code of computer programming.
Translation into computer code: Peter Hanappe
