Cat Monstera

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

This series of digital collages has been inspired by the Minoan frescoes and their relation to nature. Minoans (the civilisation which resided on Crete and other Greek islands in the Bronze Age) were one of the earliest cultures to show their admiration of nature and paint natural landscapes often depicting animals, flowers, mountains, and fields. Taking as a starting point the current fragmented condition of the murals the artist has created collages with the subjects, featured on the original murals, their images replaced and matched with digital photographs of corresponding animals, plants, and bodies, that Bagaki has found on the internet. The "Internet findings" contribute to the creation of new reconstructions and meanings of the Minoan archeological fragments.