Yorgos Sapountzis, A Statue Has Remembered Me

Yorgos Sapountzis hunts like an anthropologist the urban, figurative myths by night, or sounds them out for days on end with his camera. He then stages a confrontation, a dialogue, and a “dance,” in which the preceding expedition is consolidated to form a theatrical choreography. Sapountzis appropriates public space and the statues, monuments, and memorials that inhabit it. He consciously tries to ignore historical information about the sculptures and instead allows them to “speak” through their gestures, poses, and ornaments.