In the Horizon of the Game with the Other

Barriers built from sandbags take us straight to the frontline. Through apertures meant for guns, we glimpse strange, half hidden objects: a drawer springs open to reveal a laced bodice, a cupboard spills a hoard of sculpted teardrops, whist a video loop presents a sequence of psychologically charged images, including a crying eye, and a hand reaching out to touch its reflection in rippled water.[…] The things we see, out of reach behind the barrier, seem to belong to a world of dream or distant childhood memory.[…] the strength in Antoniou’s work is that nothing is too obviously stated. Though we may interpret it as a personal elegy […] she is also engaged, at a more philosophical level, in subverting rationalist distinctions between the self and the other, the conscious and the unconscious. (Jane Burton, Monagri Foundation Catalogue, London)