"The realization that Memory is eclectic and that it can easily fall into the category of nostalgia made me give up any attempt to reshuffle the past."

I always had fun finding playful titles for your work. When I first saw what you were up to, constructing the human body and lighting it up from within, I thought of Innerspace. Some installations looked like capsules, some others like human furniture of sorts. I know this may sound pretentious, but it's only a game.

About five years ago I did a series of works that was based on views from the inside of the earth. I tried to shape visually what Karl Jung said about the inner layers of the psyche that lose their individual existence when they retreat in time and become "world". At that time I wanted to literally dig out elements from historical memory. My mental trips are now of a different kind. The realization that Memory is eclectic and that it can easily fall into the category of nostalgia made me give up any attempt to reshuffle the past. What a trap, set for all contemporary Greek artists, the reference to antiquity is! It prevents one from diving into the world of free association.

Diving into the world of genes and the DNA is mysteriously exciting. Following closely the progress of the Human Genome Project I realized that this world has endless layers and possibilities, it provokes interaction, it is both intriguing and dangerous. It is also apocalyptic in the sense that it seems to be completely filed, yet absolutely inscrutable.

Nostalgia is usually a not-so-healthy desire to relive a non-existent or ugly past. The mechanical and scientific world more or less rejects the idea "la nostalgie de la boue", as Emile Augier wrote (the homesickness for the gutter)- and urges toward a cult of the future.

Nostalgia is for the unsatisfied, for those who are subdued by the idea that life surpasses them. The Greek art scene - like the Greek society at large - has been nostalgic up until very recently, and this has created a lot of retrogression. It now hovers between nostalgia and modernization; it's a mess.

Of all the functions of Memory I choose that which can provide me with the necessary information to enrich a pool from which I can detach data in order to reinvent a reality of my own. The work that comes out of this process consists of bits and pieces that alter, multiplicate and attempt to communicate with each other. It's more or less like developing archives. They depend heavily on the author, his interpretations, the time and the place where everything happens. Up until now I have developed different archives that have been used as supporting systems for my work. The "Linear B archives", the "Byzantine archives", the "Human Genome archives" are only some that I could mention here.