Nostos (The Vessel)
by Vassilis Triantis
portfolio shortlisted call 'URBANAUTICA INSTITUTE AWARDS 2022', 2022
Category: Memories and Traditions
Nostos is an autobiographical project where I explore my relationship with my past by rendering the body as a vessel of imprinted and acquired experiences. Family relationships, friendships, erotic desires and acts of self contemplation are portrayed through connections of the body with its physical and chronological surroundings in random order as memories arise from the subconscious.
It was triggered by moments of introspection during the pandemic lockdowns and slowly transcended into an ongoing combination of speaking images and visual words that, when intertwined, form a new language of self-definition. The sense of returning is the gravitational center around which the images revolve; a circular Odyssey between the past and the present.