On Aether - Athanasios Argianas and Nick Laessing

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Cell Project Space continue their international programme by bringing together two artists who although educated in London, now migrate between 3 cities London, Berlin & Athens. They represent a growing generation of artists who have moved to work in European cities that have had struggling post war economies, where much of the rich cultural history of the area has been left dormant and unchanged. The work presented in 'On Aether' reflects the artist's interest in revisiting the past and their shared struggle to grasp expanding technological advancement as a means of communication. For Nick Laessing & Athanasios Argianas their work is part of a lo-fi enlightenment, a programme of discovery via experimentation. Science becomes sorcery where there could be slippage between fact and fiction. Both artists work within a framework of proposal or collaboration, which often creates a device for the layering of authorship. Motion and Energy is claimed via strange and convoluted hypothesis. Much of what is exposed is selected and carefully prepared evidence inviting the audience to enter into the artists' fiction.