Hug me tight, 2024, sound installation, 7'30'', in the context of Touching Faultlines, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos & Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Gortynas Ancient Theatre, Crete, 2024

Eleni Tomadaki's recent works, I just had a bite and Hug me tight, engage with the intricate dynamics of memory and identity through both visual and sonic forms. In I just had a bite, Tomadaki transforms a large oil-on-linen canvas into a space of both vulnerability and rejection. Moments of intimacy and denial become gestural representations of an auto-ethnograhy, where brushstrokes articulate the fluid nature of memory and identity. Similarly, in Hug me tight, Tomadaki constructs an immersive sound installation, weaving recorded mnemonic representations and fictional narratives to blur the boundaries between reality and imagination. Her process involves manipulating fragments of personal archives- dreams, recordings, and snapshots-into a complex auditory experience that challenges conventional significations. Through this approach, Tomadaki invites us to consider how memories are composed, deconstructed, and reimagined, ultimately questioning the ways through which identity is both formed and transformed in the interplay between the personal and the abstract.

Text by Panos Giannikopoulos.

Hug me tight was presented along the sound installation I just had a bite in the context of the group exhibition Touching Faultlines , curated by Panos Giannikopoulos & Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Gortynas Ancient Theatre, Crete, 2024.