Lachryphagi by Nana Sachini

Lachryfagoi is a sculpture-environment-performance that is made up of sculptural objects, setting the scene for an exploration of with/within/between, in which the performers act and react, with each other, somatically, vocally, intermingling idiosyncratic narratives.

In Lachryphagi, relating to, with, material ontologies and materiality in general, in an unorthodox, perhaps even childish, definitely mythical way, creating novel readings of what we understand as identity-forming.

In Lachryphagi, bodies-image-existence-identity-ethics-politics-poetry are treated as one indivisible whole, in which if even one element changes, disturbances occur, creating ripple effects.

In Lachryphagi, bodies become sculpture-objects and object-sculptures are given life, activated, transforming them into subject-bodies with magical capabilities. 

In Lachryphagi, all actions take place in an unidentifiable space-time continuum, people are anonymous with multiple and entangled roles.

In Lachryphagi, absurdity, memories of fairy-tales, traces of the somatic, unconscious desires, mnemonic remnants, and the pre-linguistic, coexist and interact, along with the natural and supernatural, fragments of the fantastical, mythological narratives and experiences which would love to become universal.

In Lachryphagi competitive relations are in constant flux, mingling, often refused and always doubted. Female/masculine, mother/child, child/adult, conscious/unconscious, nature/culture, personal/political, representation/abstraction, presence/absence, desire/rejection, that which we see and that which we imagine/presume, that which is suggested/revealed and that which is hidden.

In Lachryphagi what we see is the extension of our gaze, what we know and feel is in constant flow and is permanently contested, everything hovers in an in between, in a state of permanent ambiguity. 

In Lachryphagi, the sculptural-environment landscape remains present, even when not-activated by the performers, suggesting an autonomous visual vocabulary as well as an expanded form of sculpture.

Concept – Artworks: Nana Sachini

Dramaturgy: Eugenia Grammenou, Iordanis Papadopoulos, Nana SachiniSound

Design: Yiannis Loukos

Performers: Eugenia Grammenou, Iordanis Papadopoulos, Nana Sachini

Sound performance: Yorgia Karidi

Warmest thanks for their help: Margarita Bofiliou, Socrates Fatouros