kterisma (κτέρισμα): object of value or personal item placed next to the dead body inside the tomb during the period of antiquity
 
note from the artist:
KTERISMA vase / sculpture / table piece is trying to investigate the connection between material and form that unconsciously and catholically dominates our aesthetical perception, particularly under the spectrum of history and symbolic juxtapositions, while testing the limits of this connection. 
 
Is material free from the form?
Is the form free from the material?
What is more KTERISMA experiments with both the physical (gravity, craftsmanship) and the conceptual dimension of an object.
Can a utensil be a temple?
Can decoration be functional? 
 
In other words KTERISMA is expressing a balance between the combination of the values each object includes (material, aesthetical, craft, functional, symbolic, chronological, personal value) in a high level, while at the same time questioning them.
 
technical features:
two-piece construction from CNC laser-cut Carrara statuario marble, hand-polished and finished.
44cm*22cm
 
photoshoot credits:
photographer: Dionisis Andrianopoulos
set design: ΧΟΥΣ | Emmanouil Chousakos
model: Apostolos Georgiadis
 
XOYΣ | Emmanouil Chousakos is an artist and a freelance product-set designer (among other pursuits) based in Athens.
 
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