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23.10.18

Poly Kasda, Twixt Cup and Lip, surfing on the WB legendary spaces, Biennale of Western Balkans 2018


Twixt cup and lip

Polyxene Kasda

Installation 200X1000cm, printed digital/manual images, 2018

The West Balkan Peninsula is undergoing a transitional state of self-restructuring that raises issues of regional connectivity and integration; a convergence challenge largely shaped by its geo-plastic peculiarities formulated in its irrational and yet persisting dogmatic formulas and legends. In a rudimentary attempt to raise mythical awareness and get emotional proximity to this unexplored “virtual space of spectrality” (Derrida), I started surfing on the Balkan legendary waves, leaving behind me a panegyrikon trail of playful doodles. In so doing, I came across haunting figures like the Albanian kallikantzaros and the terrible  ما شاء الله Shtryga with the pale blue eyes..Ι hovered over the Serbian well of Ορφεύς and the pyramid mountain Rtanj said to conceal a spaceship …I met the Slavic three headed dragon Zmey and I witnessed the fly-harassed Bosnian bull Tur balancing on a multieyed fish while carrying the globe on its back…


Poly Kasda, Twixt Cup and Lip, BoWB 2018
ΠPoly Kasda, Twixt Cup and Lip, BoWB 2018
Poly Kasda, Twixt Cup and Lip, BoWB 2018

Bio PolyXene Kasda
PolyXene Kasda is homo sentient of Greek origin, grown in the drifting fields of cosmopolitan Alexandria-Lost (Egypt). Trained in fine arts at the Soeur Hermann Besancon workshop in Alexandria, Egypt, she received her academic education in Physics-Chemistry in Cairo and Psychology-Sociology in Athens. Her project Myth/Network 1990-2017 is a psi-glued proposal for the fluid self-immersive aesthetics of transience, expressed as an ideography of the WWW before its spreading (ΕΜΣΤ, archive code 1595, 91), rhizomatic structures (Cultural Contribution Award University of Lucian Blaga, Sibiu 07), multi-sensorial hybrid mappings, topos-engendering RL Boardgames, linguistic/numerical structures (Honorary Medal EETE 09), innovative material PXK (Golden Medal OFA Beijing 08, Best Artwork Award PrimoPianoGallery Lecce 17), inter-space imagery and horticultural -metaphor- generated SAGA projects (Life Achievement Award Visionary Art, Lecce, Italy 17). She lives in Athens, she works everywhere.