Excerpt from the catalogue accompanying the exhibition of Beltsios collection An Outing. Contemporary Art in Greece in the 21st century. Text by Sotirios Bahtsetzis

Eleni Kamma “copies” architectural projects scrupulously and sensitively by combining association elements of architectural design (from all sorts of sources, ready-to-deliver models to Renaissance manuscript illustrations) with elaborate decorative patterns which refer to wallpaper of the ‘70s. Her fanciful, labyrinthine and enchanting habitations function as “portraying” architectures, as hovering, discontinued spaces within which the look is constantly subverted and any possible narrative is perpetually overthrown. Her indirect references into constructional and architectural utopias of Modernism is ideologically dislocated to the a-topias of the Postmodern. Kammas’ work underlines the contemporary feeling of loss as produce of the idealized investigation of an absolutely controlled life space (a hyper-reality), although the loss is being diverted by means of charming, dreamy “promises”.