Matrix (Vector 30481-I-V/E), 2021
21 x 15 cm
Steel, photopolymer, oil ink traces

 

Harvest, 2022
Real-time video script

 

Vectors, 2022
Installation view

 

Vector 30890-I-V/E, 2022
38 x 29 cm
Solar etching, oil ink on cotton paper

 

Vector 30188-I-V/E, 2022
38 x 29 cm
Solar etching, oil ink on cotton paper

 

Vector 30555-I-V/E, 2022
38 x 29 cm
Solar etching, oil ink on cotton paper

 

Vector 30890-I-V/E, 2022
38 x 29 cm
Solar etching, oil ink on cotton paper

 

Vector 30481-I-V/E, 2022
38 x 29 cm
Solar etching, oil ink on cotton paper

 

Quarry Time (Ghost), 2022
HD video (10:00)

 

https://www.delfinafoundation.com/whats-on/subterranean-sun/

 

Subterranean Sun is an installation presented at the exhibition space of Delfina Foundation, stemming from Petros Moris’s ongoing interest in the material and mythological manifestations of underground space as the origin of cultural pasts and technological futures.

 

This new body of work presented in Subterranean Sun takes the form of a series of solar intaglio etchings, a prototype of an algorithmically generated text-based work presented on-screen, a 3D animation based on the photogrammetric scans of a quarry in Greece, and a helioseismological soundscape.

Developed under the radiation of the Greek sun, and printed in London during Petros’s residency, the solar intaglio etchings derive from algorithmic machine-learning mutations performed on Petros’s own photographic archives of the animal-resembling sculptures which used to inhabit the ancient Kerameikos cemetery in Athens as the protectors of the threshold between the underworld and the life above.

Brought into dialogue with the etching is a prototype version of the text-based work Harvest. Using a similar algorithmic logic of machinic prediction it generates an endless stream of abstract “oracles”; texts of a synthetic language left to contingent human interpretation.

Reflecting back to the earthly materiality of the Kerameikos marble sculptures, the 3D-animated video Quarry Time (Ghost) unfolds as a negative image rendering of a haunted geological landscape, re-modeled after old photogrammetric scans of a marble quarry located between Athens and the artist’s hometown, Lamia.

Closing the loop between the celestial and the subterranean, the helioseismological soundscape will permeate Delfina’s underground space, reintroducing the cosmic presence of the sun through a year-long recording of solar oscillations, translated into an audible hum.