Kentima: twelve attemps to control a weeping surface
Evangelia Moschou (b. Greece, 2000) is an architect and artisitc researcher. Through craft-embedded research, her practice unfolds as a hands-on engagement with natural materials and the landscapes from which they emerge. With a focus on the tension between the ephemeral and the eternal, Evangelia seeks to revalue material histories, inviting dialogue on themes of memory, fragility, and our precarious attempts at control. Her work proposes a rediscovery of the world through shared material narratives that cultivate humility in front of nature’s resilience.
Kentima represents an ongoing chapter of research centered on Mastiha, the natural resin from the crying trees of Chios. The inquiry manifests multiple entangled gestures. While some elements of her work act as tangible archives, the installation simultaneously embraces entropy through its 12 vitrail panels. By listening to the material’s dual nature, Evangelia orchestrates a slow conversation between the violence of the harvest (the kentima) and the transformation of the resin. The work investigates the journey from harvest to artifact, questioning the permanence of the art object itself and celebrating the persistence of the wound as a radical act of creation.
