Forking paths

Thalia Chioti presents at the Batagianni gallery a section of works which consists of old and new ink drawings, some with black and white simplicity and others with attractive colors.

Her drawings have a flow, a musicality that brings to mind "knitting", with her audio tapes. It creates fluid, interconnected meshes that function independently of each other. These laborious undulations are involved in a rhythm of a continuous and alternating plot. The forms follow a free formulation which in turn creates sometimes a density and sometimes the repetition of a pattern that unfolds and folds with a freedom. The labyrinthine assemblies of the designs follow a free organization beyond time and space and determine their development. Borges's "forking paths" lend a freedom to the artist's design which remains Seiratic.

Her works are organized like melodies that sometimes tend to be dense and very carefully thought out and sometimes leave the magical impression of an improvisational labyrinth with its chaotic and infinite options... "hearing" Rosalyn Tureck playing the well-tempered clavier by J.S.Bach . Repetitiveness in design makes us realize that we are nothing without the attraction of repetition... without fugues. Chioti creates a work that "detects" the infinite through a systematic process in the selection of her motifs where the magic of a new labyrinth unfolds before us.

Christina Petrinou