EGIIDON 31 hosts Thalia Kerouli’s solo exhibition Sarca. Sculptures made of paper –which refer to flesh, slaughtered animals and skins, as an offering to the gods – are scattered in the exhibition space, reminding us of the slaughtered animals found in artworks from different periods of art history.

She mixes old used papers with various materials such as varnishes, glues and powders. A process, painful on a physical and mental level, as well as contradictory, if one considers that the final product is the composition of a flesh in decomposition.

For Kerouli, this series of works, the beginning of which coincided with that of the pandemic, is a way out, the expression of her strong emotions. As she characteristically has stated, “the skin is our natural identity where the past and the moments of our own history are recorded.” The works invite the viewer to experience the fragility of human existence and its wounded uniqueness and, above all, to confront his own existential fragility, thus raising the question of the relationship between matter and spirit.