The Big Smudge is an eloquently designed farce against the mantras of the post-digital age. A magnified, 3D printed replica of Konstantinos Lianos's index finger smudges paintings, crushes the parts of a sculpture, and flattens objects, surfaces, and materials. His fingerprint fades into the smudged blob. With this unexpected gesture, Konstantinos Lianos sabotages his own self, sidelines his own fascination with new materialities, anatomies, and 3D prints to challenge the preconditions of today's artistic agency. The Big Smudge provides a spatiotemporal parenthesis to debate the reasons why Artificial Intelligence, smart technologies, and other accessible technologies such as photoscan or 3D printing are stubbornly understood as duplication, extension, and prosthetic enhancement of "creative authority". In the horizontal world of The Big Smudge, materials resist, and tools throw off the yoke of their apparent usage.   

Text by Kostis Stafylakis