Nevena Popovic - No one will tell our fate

Installation "No one will tell our fate" by Nevena Popovic is made specially for Monitor Fest exhibition event. She was inspired by poem of Odysseus Elytis: 

This wind that loiters among the quinces
This insect that sucks the vines
This stone that the scorpion wears next to hisskin
And these sheaves on the threshing floor
That play the giant to small barefoot children.

The images of the Resurrection
On walls that the pine trees scratched with their fingers
This whitewash that carries the noonday on its back
And the cicadas, the cicadas in the ears of the trees.

Great summer of chalk
Great summer of cork
The red sails slanting in gusts of wind
On the sea-floor white creatures, sponges
Accordions of the rocks
Perch from the fingers even of bad fishermen
Proud reefs on the fishing lines of the sun.

No one will tell our fate, and that is that,
We ourselves will tell the sun’s fate, and that is that.

© Translation: Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard From: Sun the first

Monitor Fest, Crete's Contemporary Arts Festival, is being held for the last two years in Heraklion, Greece. Its aim is to develop a platform for contemporary arts, through a dialogue between tradition and modernism, arts and artists, locality and extroversion.
The results and the extraordinary positive response by artists and the public, urge us to renew our rendezvous for October 2018.

This year, the Festival will be hosted in the premises of the antique factory "Athena" which once belonged to the family of the Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Odysseus Elytis, who was born in Heraklion. Recently, part of it was renovated to host the central bus station of the island of Crete.