Telemachos Pateris's 'On the Loss of Memory' at O' Vascio Room Gallery, Naples

Telemachos Pateris (born Volo, 1974) presents 'Sulla perdita della memoria' (On the Loss of Memory) at O' Vascio Room Gallery in Naples, transforming the rectangular space into a silent cenotaph of loss and remembrance. The installation features three metal structures dedicated to his grandmother, father, and himself; a funerary epigram in Greek reading 'Of horses the senseless return / of Evangelia, father, brother / snatched from death'; and a mirror reflecting the lost epitaph, which recalls 'the murderer of the father and brother of Evangelia, mother of my mother, occurred in June 1919 in the province of Smyrna at the beginning of the ethnic cleansing.' The work is described as a desperate act of resistance against oblivion surrounding his cultural roots, tracing a temporal line from the Nazi massacre of Drakeia (where his father was the sole survivor) back to Asia Minor, capturing his maternal grandmother's family who survived the Armenian genocide. The exhibition runs at O' Vascio Room Gallery in Naples.