
Liti
Aphrodite Liti sets up a sculptural world where sea, memory and myth fuse into a single spatial experience. A contemporary conceptual practice emerges as the artist creates an open field of relations and interactions—between the art and the setting, matter and light, the natural and the artificial, the familiar and the surreal. She employs reflection, scale and transformation to correlate nature, myth and dream.
The gallery space turns into an inner marine passage. The swimmers, the dolphin, the seashells and the boat make up a set of allusions. The sea itself is not depicted; it is surmised through motion, glimmer, the change of scale and the unpredictable relations among the forms.
The reflections from Murano tiles and the sheen of metal are diffused around the space, constantly changing one's visual experience. The work extends beyond its boundaries, visually as well as in the viewer's imagination. The installation includes scraps of memory, from the past and the future. The gallery becomes an active space in which the sculptures develop, multiply and transmute.
In the yard, the oversize ring with the two lizards introduces the notion of emergence into a vegetal, earthly setting. The work is set within the existing space and activates it, expanding the boundaries of sculpture towards installation, experience and the poetic subversion of reality.
