Konstantinos Berdeklis engagement with writing – writing as merely an imprint on a surface, as a trace of a sensation, as a cue that leads to a memory, or an interpretation of things implied – has begun since 2019. Using pencil and chalk, he draws on paper. His drawings can be viewed as an abstract version of renaissance studies of painters such as Michael Angelos.

During the period of the first pandemic lockdown those drawings lead to the creation of ten artworks of much bigger scale. The artist works on them in succession, as a single piece. Entrapped and hunted down, like a modern caveman, Konstantinos Berdeklis uses a primitive medium, charcoal, on unprepared canvas. His gaze focuses on the space in between, joins the dots and scans the landscapes of memory. Just like the mind does, he creates paths by following the footprints of everything that has an effect on him. He eventually constructs canvases that when aligned are a little less than 15 meters of abstract compositions all together. A horizontal totem, ARCHETYPE A as he calls it, set up like a cavity waiting to be complemented, is in fact inviting more artists - Vasilis Botoulas and Anna Charaktinou - to interact with it.

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