Anastasia Pavlou

The Sleeper

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All images: courtesy the artist and Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris

The Sleeper, 2024, exhibition view
The Beautiful Ordinariness of Life Simply Occurring (1), 2023. Silver gelatin print, hand printed by the artist, 119 x 50.5 x 3.5 cm (46 7/8 x 19 7/8 x 1 3/8 in)
In this Book, Literature is Treated as an Energy Which is Intertwined with the Ultimate Danger, the Supreme Goal, the Difficult Expenditure of the Whole Psyche, the Intense Breadth, the Supreme Claim, the Passage to the Other Side, Where Nothing is Taken for Granted, Where Certainties are Overthrown, Time is Turned Upside Down, and the Numbering Begins Where the World Ends, 2024. Oil, water and gesso on canvas, 190 x 190 cm (74 3/4 x 74 3/4 in)
In this Book, Literature is Treated as an Energy Which is Intertwined with the Ultimate Danger, the Supreme Goal, the Difficult Expenditure of the Whole Psyche, the Intense Breadth, the Supreme Claim, the Passage to the Other Side, Where Nothing is Taken for Granted, Where Certainties are Overthrown, Time is Turned Upside Down, and the Numbering Begins Where the World Ends, 2024, detail
The Sleeper, 2024, exhibition view
The Sleeper, 2024, exhibition view
Left: Untitled, 2024. Oil, water and gesso on canvas, 190 x 190 cm (74 3/4 x 74 3/4 in)
Right: I’ve Been ah, Doing ah, Reading ah, Walking ah, Thinking ah, Stressing ah, Dragging ah, Running ah, Looking ah, Staring ah, Squinting ah, Dreading ah, Going ah, 2024. Oil, water and gesso on canvas, 190 x 190 cm (74 3/4 x 74 3/4 in)
Untitled, 2024, detail
I’ve Been ah, Doing ah, Reading ah, Walking ah, Thinking ah, Stressing ah, Dragging ah, Running ah, Looking ah, Staring ah, Squinting ah, Dreading ah, Going ah, 2024, detail
The Sleeper, 2024, exhibition view
There Was No Longer a Fact Passively Submitted to, but One Assumed, 2024. Oil, water and gesso on canvas, 100 x 70 cm (39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in)
Fovoi Pou Tromazoun, Fears That Scare, 2024. Oil, water and gesso on canvas, 100 x 70 cm (39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in)
Radio confusion Radio misunderstanding Radio contradiction, 2024. Oil, water and gesso on canvas, 100 x 70 cm (39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in)
Radio confusion Radio misunderstanding Radio contradiction, 2024, detail
The Poem Discharges Energy as it Moves from the Poet to the Reader, 2024. Oil, water and gesso on canvas, 190 x 190 cm (74 3/4 x 74 3/4 in)
The Poem Discharges Energy as it Moves from the Poet to the Reader, 2024, detail
The Sleeper, 2024, exhibition view
The Beautiful Ordinariness of Life Simply Occurring (2), 2024. Silver gelatin print, hand printed by the artist, 33.5 x 82.5 x 3.5 cm (13 1/4 x 32 1/2 x 1 3/8 in)
The Sleeper, 2024, exhibition view
I Who Know Others, 2024. Oil, water and gesso on canvas, 200 x 200 cm (78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in)
I Who Know Others, 2024, detail
Left: What Would it Mean if I Were a Chiselled, Sculpted Stone, What Would It Mean if One Could Move Only Between Two Rooms, One Containing the Objects, the Other the Voices, to Move Through the Rooms in a Fat Gush of Light, What would it Mean if These Rooms Contained Every Space, Every Morning, 2024. Oil, water and gesso on canvas, 150 x 100 cm (59 x 39 3/8 in)
Right: An Incredible Disappointment with the Limit of Things, 2024. Oil, water and gesso on canvas, 150 x 100 cm (59 x 39 3/8 in)
What Would it Mean if I Were a Chiselled, Sculpted Stone, What Would It Mean if One Could Move Only Between Two Rooms, One Containing the Objects, the Other the Voices, to Move Through the Rooms in a Fat Gush of Light, What would it Mean if These Rooms Contained Every Space, Every Morning, 2024, detail
An Incredible Disappointment with the Limit of Things, 2024, detail