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| Diamantis Sotiropoulos […] Ersatz hierophants, wizards charlatans of power, small minded guardians of order and morality, are posting with the paraphernalia of their god given authority in non existent of fictional spaces/places, like models in a contemporary fashion editorial or the role models of our media-based democracy. Besides the insignia and the mise-en-scene which attempt to give them status, their posture indicates beings that do not spend, do not exaggerate (in the way implied by both Bataille and Octavio Paz), but stock supplies thus not accepting their death. Sotiropoulos sketches a ‘trigger happy’ civilization, which like the Medieval, publicly demonstrates its bestiality and unrighteousness while living according to a ritual of respect and the ordinal authority. […] Nadja Argyropoulou Part of the text written on the occasion of Diamantis Sotiropoulos’ exhibition “Trigger-happy” in March 2008  Download CV |  John Doe |
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