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Royal Games + Fairy Tales = Europe’s Bread (no butter, please)

August 2016
Performative installation
FOURNOS
Gytheion, Greece 
Organisation:
 Fournos Platform (Maria Tzanakou | Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki)

As the hero of Stefan Zweig’s “die Schachnovelle” resources into mentally fleeing from his enforced confinement by using chess-figurines sculpted out of bread crumbs - or the futile act by the little Thumbling / Hänsel and Gretel, of trying to mark their path with crumbs (a counterintuitive and bizarre choice of tool, to escape sacrifice in times of crisis and hunger) - which in the end results not in their safe return, but an involuntary emancipation - Rilène’s thoughts delve into similar uses of “Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from …”
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Photography by Irini Bachlitzanaki
Video by Christos Vagiatas


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Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016
Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016
Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016
Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016
Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016
Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016
Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016
Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016
Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016
Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016
Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016
Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016
Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016
Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016
Performative installation by Rilène Markopoulou, Fournos Project 2016

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