Socratis Socratous -It’s heavy, oh so heavy, Tsolias’ skirt

Socratis Socratous‘ work is at the same time abstract and political, conceptual and formalistic, equally concerned with meaning and form. It ranges from photography, sculpture, installations and archives, is neither easily classified in contemporary art history established terms. His political conscience and his involvement in commons, as well as his attraction to the undefined beauty of life, trigger his work as a whole: a happy sad mixture of light and darkness, hope and disillusionment, private and collective memory. It is his lived relation with the “street” (in the sense of the ancient agora, where public affairs are discussed by the citizens) and the events he experiences that seem to be his central topic. Socratous’ work is part of the collections of Centre Pompidou in Paris and also by Belvedere Museum in Vienna.