Dimitris Trimintzios aka Taxis // solo exhibition

In Vacancy, Polish-born artist Dimitris Trimintzios a.k.a. Taxis presents us a set of poetic landscapes, crafted to feel unwelcome to human presence and yet strangely familiar.

The unsettling feeling that pervades the artworks is rooted first and foremost in the stillness of the scene, invaded by a subdued colour scheme that seems to be false. The works emphasise the interplay of feelings and perceptual mechanisms, and reality appears almost as if under a cinematic hue.

This series of paused moments, although carefully staged and shaped in recognizable environments and referents, negate habitability. Put at solitary crossroads, as if in some kind of hypnotic dream, Dimitris’s characters are circumspect and commence a parallel narrative masked in a day to day mundane, their stillness exudes a silence filled with an ungraspable emotional tension. They carry on, aloof and unaware of the eye of the beholder.

As spectators and outsiders we stand disenchanted, facing a strange universe that feels unexpectedly plausible.

The landscapes in Vacancy appear empty, shattered and abandoned, almost as a recreation of a post-apocalyptic world. Much more than capturing what he sees, Dimitris represents a pathway to a journey that can’t depend only on our eyes but relies heavily on our imagination and capacity to simulate mythologies on how to live together.