With references to nature, ecology, the animal kingdom and the earth, the exhibition suggests methods of understanding, recording and co-existing with living and non-living matter. Within the works of Toumpouris and Kallinikou, representation, abstraction, transparency, movement and sound create the conditions for reading and managing the rhythm and pulse that exist in the natural landscape and by extension within us.

In Kallinikou’s series of archival pigment photographs titled ‘Glass Cage Dream’, the fragility of the photographic image is likened to the disappearing relationship between the photographer and their subject. The photographs go through a process of printing and reprinting, sometimes from digitally corrupted files to make each image less readable. The photographs replace the object’s true nature with its reproduced image through a process which incorporates refined particles of pigment that are resilient to environmental elements that commonly degrade dye molecules. The disappearance is exposed and intimate, and its natural subjects are more receptive to the urgency to connect with the viewer’s corporeal existence.

Toumpouris’ focal points of matter, body and land are unequivocally associated with the earth’s motion. His experience of land in the form of filming and sculpting includes the materiality of the earth; ores, fossils, metals and glass. The human body draws its energy from the earth’s body and is captured through sculptural gestures where worked clay leaves its traces on glass. The series ‘In temporality’, encompasses ores and rocks he has collected and examined through his filming process that are bound to laser engraved stainless steel. In its entirety, the work suggests the coexistence and connection with beings within the natural landscape, as well as an emotional perception of land.