"ANADYSIS II" by Venia Dimitrakopoulou

The work ANADYSIS II, suspended from the dome of the suburban railway station, invites travellers and passersby to momentarily lift their gaze and experience, even briefly, a sense of emergence and spiritual elevation.
A metal mesh holds and supports the octagonal glass dome, which, as a public receptor of expression, receives words and phrases:
"Ξένος. A stranger. Ξένος παντού. N’ ανήκω κάπου. To belong. Με ακούει κάνεις; My voice is not heard."
These visualized expressions, reflecting the 21st-century human’s sense of insecurity, cover the interior of the dome. Floating among them are airy, oversized, curved forms that invite the viewer to find the strength to rise above earthly dystopia and emerge. They are the daedal wings for the experience of flight toward freedom.

Artist Venia Dimitrakopoulou, creator of ANADYSIS II, notes:
"I am deeply interested in creating site-specific works that are born from and for each space, in a way that is entirely organic. An airport is by nature an in-between place, a site of transition, where people come and go in haste, pursuing a clear destination.
But what happens when most of us today seem to have lost our sense of destination?
Can art and the artist reverse the disorientation that, to some degree, envelops us all?
Can the artist’s voice still be heard?
Is connection with others a prerequisite for even a momentary emergence?
Is art one of the ways we connect and communicate?
Can art and culture become a canopy, a shelter, a refuge?
Can they become a mesh that not only binds us together but also shields us from the precariousness of our time?"