Kalliopi Lemos, Irrevocable Transformations
Single-channel video with soundtrack
With Paolo Musio
Director: Kalliopi Lemos
Producer: Dom Dowbekin
Cinematographer: Jonathan Bloom
Camera Assistant: Nathalie Théry
Sound Recordist: Justin Smith
Editor: Makis Faros
The video work of Kalliopi Lemos, “Irrevocable Transformations” represents the wilful intention of the artist to interfere into the complications of comprehending the ongoing obscurity of the war, terror and the endless misery of people doomed to live within this crisis. In addition to her work series exploiting the ambiguous journeys of refugees and immigrants through the installations of abandoned boats realised in Greece, Turkey, Berlin and France since 2006, she showcases another metaphor, which is a figurative and audio-visual mode of representation of the human psychology within the existing conditions. The central figure in the video is a man, performed by Paolo Musio, a gifted Italian actor, balancing or surviving on a dangerously disposed platform. The iron platform moving circularly is a metaphor for the insecurity we feel between hope and despair.