VLAVES PARALYSIS FLAFFY POISON
2013_VLAVES Para/lysis
“Ἔρως λυσιμέλης… a fluffy poison”
The work “Eros lysimelis… a fluffy poison” by Cynthia Gerothanasiou, with its gossamer texture, as a symbol of femininity, a virginal hymen, a wedding dress, a woman’s veil or an elusive air like a woman’s heart in love,
illuminated inwardly, with a dull and luminous light, as the wounded, enamoured soul whispers words of desire of par/solution/deliverance.
As Spider, Penelope, Moon… the female “suffering” nature bows her head ready for the “sacrifice” (brilliantly given
with the colour red), introspecting at the same time, as the rustling of the veil/soul hums “…all of me, not take all of me…”
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11 contemporary artists trace the concept of para/lysis. As mediators they reexamine the social and psychological climate of the time, attempting to bring to the surface the visible and visualize the indiscernible.
METApolis, Athens.
Decay, sensitivity, paralyzing cupidity… words that capture the feeling of the work as they reveal
that dark and hidden part of the soul where Imeros nests, and where the “sweet and bitter amaharon horde slowly drips the poison that the loving soul craves.
….Cynthia Gerothanasiou in the work she presents essentially deals with the theme of the allegory of Love and Soul, reapproaching it in a way that is both original and absolutely precise in its meaning. Honest with her expressive means, consistent in terms of revealing the “inside”, she does not hesitate to “post”, with a pleasantly
lyrical movement, the mournful veils of love, revealing in the eyes of the spectator a perfect contemporary allegory.
Fani Mumtzidou
Dr. History of Art