Feral Remnants (Dog) offers a poetic projection onto a further future with no human presence in sight. The work is a multimedia installation consisting of a metal tank filled with black oil and an HD video with an original music score. The video features a purebred Samoyed dog being shot wandering in an empty environment in slow motion. The musical score (Medieval, 2016, composed by Ori, the artist’s rock trio) creates a certain dystopic heavy atmosphere, yet the screaming voice evokes a sense of riot. No human is to be seen. The dog is reversely projected onto the wall screen, and distortedly reflected on the petroleum which trembles according to the bass sequences of the music. Petroleum evokes the silent hope of discovering oil under the Greek territory, while also stands as a symbol of a pragmatic vision of tomorrow and a blurry dysfunctional dream. The modernist design of the iron tank refers to an idealistic envisaging of the future, while the sculpture mediates the viewing of the abstract and poetic image of the dog. However, the work inevitably describes a future where the lonely dog runs loose in an environment where humans are extinct. Depending on the interpretation of the installation, the viewer is left with an ambivalent sense of melancholia or a certain spark of promise about the future.
Courtesy of CAN Christina Androulidaki gallery
Feral Remnants ( Dog )
Additional Info
- Author(s): Manolis Daskalakis-Lemos
- Year(s): 2017
- Project team: Manolis Daskalakis-Lemos, Ori
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Bio:
Manolis Daskalakis-Lemos (b. 1989, Athens, Greece) lives and works in Athens and Paris. He is a member of Arbit City Group and the founder of art/fashion label Serapis. He is currently artist in residence at Pavillon Neuflize OBC, the 8-month residency program of Palais de Tokyo. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2007-12) and at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. In his work, he uses a variety of media to focus on the ways we dream about tomorrow, but also on examples of former states of prosperity that deteriorated, and how these could be projected onto the future. The contrast between idealism and pragmatism is a recurring theme in his works, which often start from an autobiographical point. Solo exhibitions include Tomorrow's Corporate Love (Forgetting from Athens, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017); Crooked Grid Crude Carrier, CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery, Athens, 2015; Feral Remnants/Oinousses, CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery, Athens, 2013. Group exhibitions include The Equilibrists, a collaboration of the New Museum with Deste Foundation, Benaki Museum, Athens, 2016, curated by Massimiliano Gioni with Gary Carrion Mutayari and Helga Christoffersen; Filter Bubble, UMA/Westbau, Zurich, 2015, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets; Poetry will be made by all, LUMA/Westbau, Zurich, 2014, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Simon Castets; Afresh: A new generation of Greek Artists, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2013, curated by Daphne Dragona, Tina Pandi, and Daphne Vitali.
- Link: www.can-gallery.com