Pre-Shot
Nikos Vatopoulos
I wonder how many worlds collide, coexist and fed into the mind of Vassilis Perou, the 32-year-old painter, who created the visual event with the "Fereic Memories" exhibition at the Skoufa Gallery.
Dozens of works, oil on canvas, oil on wood, constructions, photographs, mixed techniques, create galaxies that unfold, swirl and pervade the meaning of memory, movement, flow, migration - geographic, mental, physical. With a symbolic "house" bag, suitcase, passport, death certificate or birth certificate, Vassilis Perros composes a deep observation of social anthropology, microhistory and ontological agony.
The spaciousness of his imagination and the boldness of bridging fragments of contradictory, sometimes petitions, is reinforced by his impressive ingenuity. It is worthwhile to notice the microstructures in a leather suitcase, where a mega-microcosm of wear follows the circle of life. All around, his works open up worlds, through death, I often saw the light of life, like the plants that wake up through a worn-out baggage, like the light that shines on the body inside. Numerous references to Vassilis Perou take fragments, yarns, yarns and make them into something entirely his own, something that is self-sustaining in a continuous flow. Smyrna's mother combines with gothic-style houses, Spencer Tunick-style bare bodies and Ron Mueck styles, Kavvadia, Cavafy, an amalgam of intimate people, Tim Burton and Ieronymos Boss ...