AEONIUM

In Aeonium, five plant-nursery employees speak about a mysterious disaster, a “terrible event”. They respond successively to unuttered questions, while cultivating a plant of the genus Aeonium, sometimes with patience and at other times with resignation. The plant, an enigmatic remnant of an abandoned world or the symbol of a new era, imposes its own temporal regime. The artist notes: "In a plant nursery, the circle of life continuously ends and begins again. Uprooting and constantly transplanting a succulent creates an endless vicious circle of life and death. 5 persons are trying to understand what was that which happened to them. They try to exist again. They try to explain the unexplainable”. Aeonium evokes a suspended condition between movement and stasis, speech and silence, deterioration and regeneration, discontent and anticipation, monotony and variation. It depicts a world hermetically closed and protected from external conditions, yet transparent and susceptible to change.

— Anna-Maria Kanta (Taken from the monograph- catalogue "George Drivas / Structures of Feelings", Published by annex M, Megaron - The Athens Concert Hall)