Floating Sculpture

Spyridon Giasafakis is a Greek artist and musician currently based in London, UK. He holds a B.A. in sculpture from Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki and a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts from Byam Shaw School of Art(St Martins). He is currently doing a Masters in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art. In 1994 he formed the musical ensemble "Daemonia Nymphe". The ensemble uses reproductions of ancient Greek instruments and ancient Greek text. Spyridon explains about his visual work: "My work is like a diary, a constitution of our every day activities. A construction made of our ritualized repetitive actions. The remains of our daily lives create a mass, composing an image that can receive many different forms. If Peter Greenaway's film "the cook the thief, his wife and her lover" suggest that we are what we eat(or what we read according to the "Prospero's books") then our remains may produce a visual form which can be translated as a constitution of traces that we leave behind retaining our existence. I try to create installations using mass produced objects that give birth to a new form made of these every day repetitive activities. I am interested in the metamorphosis of the every day object and in the ritualistic aspect of the every day commonness. The Greek word metamorphosis consists of two words: the word "meta" which means after, something that will follow from a previous state to a future one, and "morphe" which can be translated as a "form" or a "shape". The material I am using pre-exists in a state of its own and I intend to transfer it to a new one guided by our everyday actions. By denaturing every day activities into concrete objects I intend to construct a monument to every day life, a monument to out devouring habits and our existence." e-mail: spyrosg_@hotmail.com http://www.myspace.com/theartistthe http://showtime.arts.ac.uk/Spyridon http://www.myspace.com/daemonianymphe