On Monday the 9th of May Paula Lakah will present at the Art Gallery ASTROLAVOS dexameni (Xanthippou 11, Kolonaki, tel: 210 7294342, 3, fax: 210 7293317, www.astrolavos.gr) a performance entitled: "Inside-Out".
The basic axes of the performance are the following:
The woman-artist at the beginning is not visible to the spectator. She is found in the interior of an oval construction which she calls "an energetic egg". However her presence becomes perceptible to outside from the light that is emitted by the half-transparent wrapping of the egg and which springs from a luminous cable that surrounds her body. This luminous element refers to the communicative character of a person and his need to contact with his environment externalizing his internal world. So a dilemma is raised and sometimes the double tendency of a person for isolation and "closure" in a safe wrapping on the one hand and for communication and "opening" to the outside world on the other. At the same time there will be a musical background of soft, rhythmical music that will give an intellectual, surreal atmosphere to the performance. Her dancing kinesiology-way in the first stage will be an accidental roaming at the lowest level of the Art Gallery between the crowd. Then she will go up the scale that leads to the intermediate level, approaching an object from timber in phallic shape, that will be stand there and which she has created herself. The artist, that has being "revealed", as she has taken off the egg wrapping - the process of this revelation has the significance of genesis or metamorphosis - will come in contact with this object, which is also transformed. As a part of a live organism, the central axis of the object goes up and down changing angles of gradient from horizontal to vertical. The significance of this "game" between woman - artist and this object is susceptible to different readings and interpretations. The one that concerns the bodily - sexual level is likely most unsophisticated, as each person expresses his erotic-communicative tendency for different objects, meanings or necessities. The white color that dominates so much in her costume as much in the color of polymorphic object refers to the lost innocence.
Paula Lakah, born in Egypt, has lived and has exhibited in Germany and in Greece (4 solo exhibitions and performances). Her performance will begin in 21.00 and the duration is 15 min.
Duration of exhibition: until 28th of May.