Screening time: 1h11

Klonaris / Thomadaki, Requiem pour le XXe siècle, 1994, from The Angel Cycle
Analogue video, black and white and colour, 14′, sound (soundtrack: Spiros Faros)

“The photograph of the Intersex Angel is connected to images belonging to the public memory of the twentieth century – the Second World War newreel, a condensation of violence perpetuated by other current wars. Here, a subject with a different, naked body, blindfolded, stands motionless in front of the events that explode before his abolished gaze. He becomes an observer, a witness, a victim and a judge, a different persecuted body, burnt knowledge, the body of the holocaust, the irradiated body, the stage of memory” (M. Klonaris – K. Thomadaki).

Klonaris / Thomadaki, Quasar, 2002-2003, from The Angel Cycle
Digital video, black and white and colour, 32′, sound (soundtrack: Spiros Faros), with Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki

An “extragalactic” double self-portrait of the two artists, a journey beyond the limits of the body. “There is a quality of silence here for the spectator; body and speculative experiences are of the same fabric, they breathe together. In Quasar, the gaze can contemplate and engage with the sky in an almost dangerous relationship. There is an infinity. We are at the edge of things that have an end, therefore at the edge of the limitless”. (Marie-José Mondzain)

Klonaris / Thomadaki, Angel Scan, The Angel Experience, 2007, from The Angel Cycle
Digital video, black and white and colour, 25′, sound (soundtrack: Spiros Faros), with Maria Klonaris

“Maria Klonaris, Becoming Angel (in the sense of Gilles Deleuze). This alchemical metamorphosis is both spiritual and material, and Angel Scan offers a dive into the heart of matter in transformation. The artist’s face comes alive with luminous vibrations and swirls of colour. A radiant energy emanates from their being, overflowing the limits of the subject and creating an essential continuity between body and world, microcosm and macrocosm”. (Maud Jacquin)