NICOSIA, June 2009, APOTHEKE
For his first solo exhibition under the title LOVE AT LAST SIGHT, opening on the 19th June 2009 at APOTHEKE, Constantinos Taliotis (b.1983) begins from the end’s beginnings. Scenarios of disaster and situations at the brink of disintegration are photographically charted, narrating multiple endings, thus mocking the obsessive unerstanding of disaster as essentially apocalyptic. Instead of the imminent, grievous flattening an ending is understood to engage in, Constantinos Taliotis rediscovers and manages, at last sight, the discontinuous game of the process of disaster itself. Instead of the ominous consumption of sobs and cries, the echo of a silenced loudspeaker, the rattle of a deserted pool-bar, a bright orange, plastic, toy-gun force the accepted tracing of the warring, the disastrous, the catastrophic to a disorderly retreat.
