Calls and Songs

For his second solo show at eins gallery, Calls and Songs, Stelios Kallinikou presents a body of work that explores how human beings have registered and altered the environment through technologies, and how we relate to recording devices…Along with the lyricism of his depiction of bodies, animals, plants, or human constructions, Kallinikou takes a physical and ideological stance in relation to the lens and the image, which is then mirrored and expanded in his audiences’ acts of looking. By taking a position in front of the technologies whereby we record the world, Kallinikou emphasises the distance between his body, the lens, the image, and that which is being recorded. By extension, this also shows the distances we retain, and which we often forget about. His work grants us a glimpse of the underlying implications of looking and recording the world, that is, of the contexts in which images are produced, circulated and consumed—many of which seem to hide away the more a picture circulates. It prompts us, in the end, to decide our position concerning what would prefer to stay unseen in all the images we encounter. (Excerpt from exhibition text by Andrés Valtierra.)