Municipal Gallery of Mythimna, Lesvos
Curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis, Athena Hadji
Setting out from conceptual art, Dambassina presents one scale and two staged, large scale pictures, shot with analogic film. “A young boy in knickers and with one of his arms bandaged in plaster. Displayed next to it the photograph that shows the pattern of hopscotch game drown in white against a dark background. Both images show their subjects in a verticality that brings to mind a sort of “spiritual ascension”. A lurking sense of death and rebirth renders the images both hard and comforting”. (Alexandra Koroxenidis)
The balance holds, on one side, blood-red wine and, on the other, bites of bread. “There are only bodies and languages except that there are truths”. (Alain Badiou)