Eleni Bagaki

Eleni Bagaki: The importance of Reading, Writing, and Exfoliating

2018, Pallete Terre, curated by Enterprise projects.

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When I met Murakami’s cat

Video stills, 2018, video, color, sound, 18 min 42 sec

When I met Murakami’s cat is a film that was conceived during a three-month residency at Pivô, Sao Paulo.

A woman travels to Brazil looking for nothing – apart from finding herself – when she comes across a cat. Soon she realizes that the cat she meets is one of Haruki Murakami’s cats and she is lost. The cat speaks and tells her own story. Her journey from Tokyo, where she was brought up by Murakami, to Hawaii, where she lived with another man under a tree, and to Sao Paulo, where she was kidnapped by a kid and forced to learn Portuguese.

There, only feet matter

Video stills, 2018, video, color, sound, 5 min 44 sec

There, only feet matter evolves in the pool of a hotel. A woman goes to Paros to look for salt. “The salt of Paros” is a constructed concept, a myth, where the heroine is called to find. She decides not to follow the scenario and instead of traveling around the island looking for it she stays in the hotel and spends time in the swimming pool. Eventually, instead of salt, she finds feet.

Look for love and find a log instead

2017, Kantor Foundation, Krakow

Look for love and find a log instead was written and published during a one-month residency at the Kantor Foundation, Poland. The artist stayed in a country house in the remote village of Hucisko. During her stay in isolation, she only kept in contact with the curator of the program. Inspired by their conversations and the wilderness of the place she writes a Western story about the challenge of living and making art alone while there is nobody around to fall in love with.