Yannis Sideridis
2024 – today
On Being Light and Liquid
This series reflects on human presence as something fluid, transient, elusive, yet profoundly shaping. It explores how we inhabit space not only through our physicality, but through the subtle traces we leave behind, echoes of memory, movement, and change. In today’s ever-shifting world, fluidity is not exception but norm. As Zygmund Bauman describes, liquids do not hold shape. They spill, soak, seep through barriers, transforming everything they touch. Human presence, or absence, behaves in much the same way. Even in the remotest landscapes, where time seems still, one can sense the imprint of those who once dwelled there. Memory lingers like vapor, creating invisible ties between self and place. Through these residual signs, a relationship is formed between the land and the ones who passed through it. Modern life thrives in motion. Permanence gives way to the ephemeral, traditions dissolve. But within this flux, there is still something to be seen, something to be felt. This work attempts a quiet documentation of that motion across space and time. To witness what resists being held. To suggest that absence, too, can be a form of presence.
