My artistic practice explores the delicate balance between individuality and collective structures in an age of overconsumption. In my work «Abundance» I examine how mass consumption affects not only the environment, but human identity itself.
The installation space is deliberately overwhelmed with accumulated waste: packaging, plastics, industrial residue. These everyday remnants function not merely as scenery, but as active elements in the dialogue between body, object and excess.
The performance unfolds within this constantly shifting landscape of debris, embodying the exhausting repetition of labour and production. I attempt to capture the emotional consequences of abundance — how the promise of “more” leads not to fulfilment but to saturation.
Through this work, I invite the audience to interact and confront abundance not as prosperity, but as an unstable and fragile overload that tests both the human body and our collective ecosystems.
Abundance is the privilege of the many, at least in the western world in which I live. People are confronted daily with the idea of being liked and pleasing others, of being accepted. They carry the burden of choice yet within an overabundance of options that ultimately alienates them. Human herds are formed, submitting to imposed trends. Clones of consumer conditions.
But where in all of this lies uniqueness?
Could the “abundance” of today, in fact, be the poverty of tomorrow?
Performer artist: Alexandros Mylonas
Curator: Sofia Stavrakaki
