ON SOUND/IN SOUND
Filter
24/04/2026 - 07/06/2026.
Video animation, 4K, stereo sound
CGI and animation by Yorgos Papafigos.
Sound design by Dimitris Batsis.
Presented as a video projection in Straining Against the Frame, the solo exhibition of Yorgos Papafigos at CYPHER, Athens.
Curated by Dinos Chatzirafailidis.
Filter is a video art work by Yorgos Papafigos and Dimitris Batsis that investigates the relationship between form, energy, and transformation within an unstable visual field. At its center stands a vertical metal shaft rotating slowly in darkness. Attached to it are two semi-transparent, worn mesh structures with a flesh-like texture. As the axis turns, hybrid forms continuously emerge and disappear across and through these membranes: avian presences, animal and organic fragments, ambiguous objects, and transitional subjectivities that appear to pass from one state into another.
The filter emerges here as a mechanism of selection, distortion, and transition. Whatever appears on the surface of the work never fully stabilizes; it is only temporarily registered, transformed, and ultimately returned to an invisible field. In this way, Filter resonates with contemporary social and technological conditions, in which experience, identity, and memory are increasingly constituted through systems of mediation, processing, and continuous feedback.
The rotating metal shaft alludes to an industrial component, while the pulsating forms that traverse the meshes bring to the fore energy as an invisible yet active force that drives, shapes, and continually redefines the world. The work thus proposes an allegory for contemporary experience: an environment in which nothing remains fixed or immutable, but where everything passes through filters, fields, and processes of constant transformation.
Photos by Stathis Mamalakis.
Video animation, 4K, stereo sound
CGI and animation by Yorgos Papafigos.
Sound design by Dimitris Batsis.
Presented as a video projection in Straining Against the Frame, the solo exhibition of Yorgos Papafigos at CYPHER, Athens.
Curated by Dinos Chatzirafailidis.
Filter is a video art work by Yorgos Papafigos and Dimitris Batsis that investigates the relationship between form, energy, and transformation within an unstable visual field. At its center stands a vertical metal shaft rotating slowly in darkness. Attached to it are two semi-transparent, worn mesh structures with a flesh-like texture. As the axis turns, hybrid forms continuously emerge and disappear across and through these membranes: avian presences, animal and organic fragments, ambiguous objects, and transitional subjectivities that appear to pass from one state into another.
The filter emerges here as a mechanism of selection, distortion, and transition. Whatever appears on the surface of the work never fully stabilizes; it is only temporarily registered, transformed, and ultimately returned to an invisible field. In this way, Filter resonates with contemporary social and technological conditions, in which experience, identity, and memory are increasingly constituted through systems of mediation, processing, and continuous feedback.
The rotating metal shaft alludes to an industrial component, while the pulsating forms that traverse the meshes bring to the fore energy as an invisible yet active force that drives, shapes, and continually redefines the world. The work thus proposes an allegory for contemporary experience: an environment in which nothing remains fixed or immutable, but where everything passes through filters, fields, and processes of constant transformation.
Photos by Stathis Mamalakis.