Mythical Truths

Drawing on the understanding of space through embodied memories and over a methodology that includes
archival research, story telling, human relations and visual arts, Mythical Truths envisions an alternative
school model where decision making occurs on the authority to its own people. Students, professors,
technicians, models, administrative personnel and others that constitute the Royal Academy of Fine Arts,
are invited to share memories or their future aspirations as they walk through and around the school
buildings. Their stories will be recorded in an archive and gain momentum through their sculptural and
sound translation in space. This way a polyphonic landscape will be created where personal truths and
collective myths shape the identity of the institution. The final outcome of the proposed artistic research will
address how an archive of untold stories, when activated through art, can become a method that privileges
pluralism and inspires change. Mythical Truths stems from my necessity to look into the Academy as an
educational and cultural system where my vision of sculpture and archiving can amplify or sustain its social
diversity; A theme that I have been fostering for the past four years along with urban communities in Greece
and in Belgium and one can witness in the attached portfolio