Andreas Angelidakis: Seawall

29 May 2021-1 Jan 2022

Overview

Seawall considers the encroaching ocean and the ongoing discussion around climate change, coastal erosion, and the physical and political impact this has on a place. Angelidakis will use the human response to flooding through the invention of sea defence mechanisms to ask, ‘can the border between land and sea become a habitable place?’  

Andreas Angelidakis (born in 1968) lives and works in Athens. Trained as an architect, Angelidakis switches roles between artist, curator, architect and teacher. His multidisciplinary practice often focuses around the internet and the perceptive and behavioral changes it has brought about.

Inspired by Athens itself, Angelidakis’s work often deals with the notion of ruin, be it ancient, contemporary or imaginary. The ruin becomes a vehicle for a building’s unfulfilled potential, powered by emotional, psychological or historical hallucination. Angelidakis has consistently challenged the expected end-product of architectural practice by reversing the ‘representation to realisation’ sequence of the production of buildings. He often starts with an existing building, producing models, films, ruins, installations or alternative histories, blurring fact and fiction, and smoothing out the borders between the real and the virtual.