Publication Title: After the Explosion You Still Hear the Light
Editor: 3 137
Publisher: Paraguay Press / 3 137
Language: English / Greek
Date: 2023
Graphic Design: Panos Papanagiotou
Location: Paris
After the Explosion You Still Hear the Light began as an exhibition and a series of related events before evolving into a seven-year research project led by the artist-run space 3 137. The project focused on the artistic practices and spaces of 1970s Greece, their connections to contemporary art, and the intergenerational exchanges that have shaped local artistic life.
My contribution to the volume included an introductory text on the project’s emergence, as well as an essay for the Reader. Conceived as an additional tool for further investigation into the themes and period under discussion, the Readers ought to illuminate key questions that generated further dialogue over the course of our research. In this way, it extends the book’s main body by bringing together material produced during the intervening years.
For this section, I contributed a text on the work of Nausica Pastra, an artist to whom I devoted significant time and research during my PhD years. In this essay, I argue that Pastra dedicated her life to a rigorous search for a visual language grounded in Logos, in which artistic creation is shaped not by subjective expression but by logic, geometry, mathematical reasoning, and systematic method. Through drawings, notes, measurements, and diagrams, she developed a meticulous process in which structure preceded execution, especially in series such as Analogiques I, where repetition, ratios, and invented forms such as the Synectron reveal her commitment to analytical thought and serial organization.
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