Anagram (Orgic Clouds, Litho Droughts), 2022
250 x 150 x 3 cm
Marble, aluminum honeycomb pannel

 

 

Installation view with Lito Kattou’s Bodies at Weather Engines, Onassis Stegi, Athens 2022

 

Anagram (Orgic Clouds, Litho Droughts) is a marble-inlay sculpture created as an apotropaic dedication to Earth’s evolving extreme weather phenomena. Floods and droughts –becoming more and more intense and frequent– are captured in a two-part anagram poem and are discussed together as destructive effects of climate change, deforestation and human intervention. The letters of the poem are cut with the aid of CNC waterjet and switched around within the surface, disrupting the natural pattern of the stone. The surface of the aliveri marble used broadly in the city of Athens resembles a cloudy sky and at the same time it constitutes a visual encoding of the slow geological processes of the planet. As a metamorphic rock, it was formed by the high temperature and pressure of Earth’s crust. ‘Anagram’ looks at geology, climate and civilization as an integrated network that entangles inorganic matter, biological processes and cultural codes into a common ‘Earth System’.