nothing can surpass the illusion of stillness

in collaboration with fyllenia grigoriou

(inspired by poem 42 by e.e. cummings:

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The research project “nothing can surpass the illusion of stillness” is an ongoing interdisciplinary investigation into the conceptual and perceptual construction of stillness. Initiated in 2015 through the medium of photography and extended since 2023 to include video, the project is developed by a photographer and a performer as a sustained inquiry into how the image and the body negotiate conditions of stasis and movement.

The project approaches stillness not as the absence of motion, but as an unstable threshold — a paradoxical state in which the absence of action conceals an ongoing undercurrent of potential, disruption, or resistance. The image, the body, and time-based media are positioned within a field of tension: between capture and flow, form and transformation.

The culminate of the research coincidentally synchronises on the day of the departure of the vessel Madleen (June 1, 2025), which carries civilian aid toward Gaza by sea. This real-time event marks the collapse of any attempt to stabilize or isolate stillness: movement asserts itself, politically and physically, against the imposed stasis of siege. The project concludes without a finalized artistic product; it remains in the stage of theoretical articulation and written reflection.