Nefeli Papadimouli, Relational Cartography | Être forêts (Dunkerque, June 2021), 2024

Relational Cartographies are graphical notations of past performances that map the spatial relationships between bodies and environments. These works underscore Papadimouli’s research into the ecosystems that emerge when material bodies interact with each other and with their surroundings. Using the human body scale to measure reality, drawings in the “Relational Cartography” series deploy, much like graphic notations, choreographies of collective movement made possible by these sculptures. The backdrop provided by geometric assemblages of pink and blue millimeter papers references the grid as the foundation of modernist abstraction, while the circular, networked, multidirectional movement patterns drawn by the artist bring in elements of contingency and unpredictability, embracing the improvised and spontaneous aspects of collective experimentation to question the margin of free movement within urban and everyday spaces. The series emphasizes Nefeli Papadimouli’s research on the spacing between environments, things and beings: the artist invites us to question our feelings of belonging and responsibility towards systems of relations.

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