Epagogi

Danae Kyriakou

Year2025

MediumMixed Media Sculpture

Dimensions 14 × 37 × 10 cm

Epagogi is a sculpture depicting the emotional state of someone passing through a non-place. A transitory, anonymous space where identity momentarily dissolves. The sculpture is presented as a perforated form with pieces of it escaping and expanding as if it becomes one with the place and at the same time is never really completed. With a tangled weaving technique, a continuous squiggle represents the confusing identity of a non-space. Its feet are made to resemble Mimosa leaves, a plant whose leaves fold inward when touched and re-open a few minutes later, mirroring how people withdraw within themselves in impersonal environments and reopen once they leave. Finally, a bronze wire is woven inside the sculpture starting from the brain and into all the key points of the body that are affected by the psychosomatic reaction of fear, mapping the inner transformations that occur within us while inhabiting sterile, temporary territories.