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Xerolage 43—Grapyrus by Matina L. Stamatakis
Matina Stamatakis has "arrived" even if the rest of the world has been
too slow to realize it. Her newest "art/non" textscape is a veritable
plum pudding of ruthless extravagance, a cryptological scherzo written
in "sanscript", so to speak. Teasing out texture from text, this most
recent offering from the Xerolage series has a haunting aspect that
unites papyri and the phantom after-effects of words in constant
stochastic exile. In essence, Stamatakis "writes" perpetually double,
the reflection upon a surface of "lin/geist" that judders with an
ekphrastic motion of the cinematic or photographic double-take.
—Kane X. Faucher
Tombstones and footprints, prehistoric imperial Chinese silk
distressed and preserved in airtight tombs, Sapphic papyrus scrolls
used as winding sheets for the human dead: languaged shapes (letters,
glyphs, cuneiform, runes) layer each other on multidimensional,
neonic, poly-textural surfaces that glow through the eras, aeons and
ages. Evocative of sound, syntax and melismatic intuition, these
works are endlessly resonant through time, space, and mind, expanding
them all.
—Maria Damon
In Matina Stamatakis' Grapyrus, an utterly fresh light unveils
antiquities. Under the cold glare of the photocopier's bulb new
thoughts are seared onto the richly textured venerability of the page.
Here is a vibrantly dark art that does not merely mimic or ape
antediluvian roots, but consciously honors and revises them,
relentlessly refreshing deep-seeded threads of thought. Flourishing
gestures of contemporary graffiti no longer deface or elide, but
honor; the visually brutalizing process of Xeroxing accentuates,
antiques. Xerolage 43-Matina StamatakisHere papyrus and spray paint
conspire to create a Rosetta stone for the hermetic communiqués
scribbled on bathroom walls. The "reader" wanders through a
nonexistent city, inexplicably entranced by the tattered posters
pasted to crumbling edifices, and couldn't be happier to be so utterly
lost.
—John Moore Williams
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