Nikos Papangelis

Daedalus (against walls) | Daedalus was imprisoned by king Minos in the Labyrinth - a maze that he himself had built by order of the king. But the legendary architect later managed to find an exit from the Labyrinth and flew away.

This body of work is an attempt to map my emotional world - an attempt which accompanied from the very beginning the psychoanalytic sessions I started attending in 2015 in order to deal with my anxiety. Over time, the process of recognizing certain patterns in my stories, memories, fantasies and my dreams has offered me a unique perspective; it has been truly fascinating to explore the mysterious ways in which these parallel realities are being interconnected.

I soon started facing these realities, along with my personal fears and the conflicts lying behind my angst, as substantial yet separate fractions of what I have been calling “myself”; they seemed to compound a familiar complex network that I have been tirelessly building up for many years. Nonetheless, the more I realized the extent to which I have been trapped in this involute construction, the more I wanted to break free. This triggered a strong desire to discover what’s outside of this deceitful structure; I wanted to discern the form of the orderless chaos that comes with the freedom I have been seeking after - I thought that it was about time to confront it or even manage to embrace it. nikospapangelis.com