Kafsi
EMMY KOTOULA STATEMENT
The Greek title of my artwork collection is “KAFSI,” which emphasizes the process of fire (burn)
and not the act or the result.
It is not a material state but rather some stage of its transformation.
Fire was worshipped in all cultures in its duality: destructive and purifying, culminating and
redemptive.
My work refers to the confrontation of man’s inner power against annihilation and the
search for faith through the ” sacrifice ” of the old or the superfluous.
I use primordial or natural materials such as, wood, stones, sand, soil, sizal ropes, which I join
with glue and then I burn. I work only with my own hands, without tools and partly gestural.
I also treat
the use of ropes under a double prism of meaning: as a means of lifting and as a tying material.
Important for me is the rising vertical movement of fire that is symbolically intertwined with the
spiritual uplift and liberation of man.
Sacred, its touch on the transcendental dimension of human
experience.
Kafsi 1
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