Day 1: Τhe works of artist Konstantinos Berdeklis are taken from the "cave" - workshop of the artist to the "mosque" - art gallery. Like a contemporary caveman Konstantinos Berdeklis uses a primitive medium, charcoal, on unprepared canvas to create ten artworks during the first lockdown. During the next days, The Totemic Other team will unite the artworks to set up a horizontal totem, turning the art gallery into a place of worship where the invited artists and creators converse with his art. Watch the video of the first day of a project imitates the artist’s attempt to outline on the canvas the fluidity of mind associations. Mimicry is a tool to conquer, and therefore understand, the “other”.

Watch the video of the first day by clicking on the image below!

The Totemic Other is an experimental, multilayered art project, an anti-exhibition open to interactions amongst the participants, the public and the work of Konstantinos Berdeklis.

Team of participants:

Invited artist I: Anna Charaktinou

Invited artist II: Vasilis Botoulas Stories by Iason Ali – drawings by little Sotiris

Costume design: Thomais Kopania

Texts accompanying ARCHETYPE A: Dimitra Karachotziti

The travelogue is recorded photographically by Kimon Ali and Charalampos Vlachodimos and Kosmas Kokkaris.

Curation and coordination: Leonie Gavrias

Participation in the organization: Margarita Kataga

Totem costume character Drenia Iasonidou

Music: by The Kika Project (Yannis Iliopoulos, Christos Kosmidis, Konstantinos Berdeklis)

Communication Sponsors: Athens Voice, Insider, Art22, Kroma