14 Feb – 16 Feb 2025
Armatolon ke Klefton 38, Athens, 114 71, Greece
AK38
Opening: Friday 14 February 2025, 19.00 – 22.00 p.m.
Duration: 14 – 16 February 2025, 19.00 – 22.00 p.m.
Video installation
To Fault in Love is a video installation that explores love through the lens of technology, futility, and human connection, which remains incomplete. It forms a mosaic of narratives, dialogues, emotions, sounds, and images, drawing material from real conversations on social media—whether personal or from moments shared by friends and strangers.
The dialogues in the work, such as:
“Sorry, I didn’t see your message.”
“I’ve fallen in love with someone who doesn’t want me, and I’m a mess,”
express the conflict between the need for connection and the fear of rejection or the alienation brought about by modern life. The language is everyday and direct, while simultaneously shedding light on the existential dimension of emotions. The characters embody the universal experience of romantic pain, rejection, and longing, while also reflecting the dystopia inherent in contemporary love. The “delayed” responses and confessions made through a screen underscore the illusion of closeness, while the dialogues are marked by realism and humorous contrasts.
To Fault in Love invites the audience to examine the emotional, social, and existential dimensions of love, functioning as a mirror of our times. Through the humor, tragedy, and profound emotional truths of its dialogues, the work reminds us that, despite technological progress, human connection remains fragile. The juxtaposition of these elements highlights the dystopian nature that often accompanies love in the modern era.
Curator: Nasia Kalamaki
Sound: φø Fotis Rovolis
Play: Dora Aligizaki, Alexandros Giannopoulos, Myrto Sarri, Lena Skoufou
Short bio
Mary Thivaiou is a visual artist. Her practice focuses on exploring the relationship between image, memory, and mediation, examining the use of faces, events, and documents through visual representations. Utilizing various practices that include video, photography, and other forms of visual storytelling, her work revolves around issues related to narration, interpretation, connection, and distance, as shaped by technology and contemporary forms of visual communication, such as social networks and digital platforms. She is a graduate of the Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art at the University of West Attica, the Department of Fine Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and the Postgraduate Program in Fine Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts. During her studies, she received scholarships from Erasmus for attending the Arts Plastiques department of Paris 8 University, as well as from the Estonian Open Air Museum in Tallinn. Since 2016, she has been a member of the three-person art group argh. Her work has been presented in exhibitions and workshops in Greece and Europe, while she also creates videos for museums and theater performances.