Loukia Alavanou
State of Concept
The hallmark of Loukia Alavanou’s work is the collaging of sounds and imagesanything from photographs and disembodied cartoon characters to newsreel and film-noir clipsinto incongruous compositions that expose the mechanics of the media in constructing history and manipulating our perception of reality. Her show “Towards New Horizons,” curated by iLiana Fokianaki, presented four exemplary videos, produced between 2005 and 2013, alongside a new installation.
Alavanou’s virtual reality installation New HorizonsPilot, 2018, is a stereoscopic counterpoint to the future predicted by