Acrylic on Canvas.

What you see in this painting are five humble heads balanced on one body. It resembles the roles we need to activate throughout the day. As a parent, a son or sister, a friend, a colleague, a leader, and so on, we balance our demons all day long, hoping to make it through. One way to accomplish this is by keeping humble during your daily functions and getting the job done. It's not easy.

The unexpected characters in Sergis’ work antagonize with the artist himself, for a plane of coexistence within the canvas frame, as well as, volumetric substantiation in an image that has absolved its sense of spatial depth. The world portrayed by Sergis is not a hospitable environment for its dwelling bodies, hence their organic deconstruction becomes a governing rule for their representational endurance. Visually vulnerable, they risk instant assimilation by the monochromatic surroundings, as they linger in a state of constant transformation. For the viewer, such creatures are mostly formed as a by-product of external forces, rather than the materialization of their interior characteristics. A situation and survival condition, parallel to the effort of contemporary artists to appropriate space for artistic existence in the traditional and single-dimensional cultural Cypriot landscape.

Dr Charalambos Charalambous

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