haris epaminondawhy this passion for the origin?
this search for first forms, which is analogous to the search for the first man or for the first manifestations of art, which we nonetheless know to be ungraspable, if it is true that in one sense there never was a beginning, not for anything nor at any moment?
in the past, the navigator who crossed “the line”, the zero parallel, was under the impression that he found himself at an exceptional moment and at a unique point, a sacred zone, the passage over which symbolized a crucial initiation.
an imaginary line, a point that was geographically null, but one that represented, precisely by its nullity, the degree zero toward which one could say that man strives, out of a need to attain an ideal landmark from which, free of himself, of his prejudices, of his myths and gods, he can return with a changed expression in his eyes and a new affirmation.’ maurice blanchot
haris epaminonda was born in cyprus in 1980
lives and works in berlin
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