Lost Signals, Found Traces
Video, Duration: 4.00 minutes, 1999-2025
Image and Sound Composition and Editing: George Lazoglou
Filming: Klitsa Antoniou
The ancient head shown in the video is housed in the storage of the Department of Antiquities in Nicosia and is taken from a photograph by Stefanos Kouratzis featured in the exhibition ELLE Chypre au féminin, organized by the Press and Information Office and curated by Catherine Louis Nikita.
Lost Signals, Found Traces
The video Lost Signals, Found Traces (1999-2025) immerses the viewer in a sensory journey where the female body is conceived not only as a biological entity but as a vessel of convergence of time, memory and change. It interweaves images to explore the fluidity of existence – where the body, a site of perpetual change, carries the weight of history. The title, Lost Signals, Found Traces, speaks to the interplay between memory and time, where traces of the past endure, morph, and ultimately dissolve. The red images, reminiscent of both the internal fluids of the body and the external element of water, create an abstract perception of the transient but enduring nature of life. They spatially compete with fragments of ancient female statues – battered and eroded – that serve as powerful metaphors for the body's cyclical journey through destruction and rebirth. Thε work is a meditation on the passage of time, the role of the body as both a recorder and an erasure of history and the duality of human existence: vulnerability and resilience, forgetting and remembering. Through its fragmented images, it evokes a sense of the collapse of time – where past and present coexist in a disorienting mixture, revealing the paradox of human fragility. It invites reflection on the relationship between memory and history, not as static records but as fluid, living entities shaping and shaped by time. It is a testament to the absurdity of human existence: in the inevitable disintegration of our bodies, we find the essence of both our survival and our erasure. Through this journey of memory and oblivion, the body becomes a space where the past is never fully erased, but endlessly rewritten.
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