Christos Oikonomou "L’INFINI TERRIBLE"
ROMA GALLERY
December 18 — January 13 2025
Thursday, December 18, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Christos Oikonomou, Dormeur du Val, 2022, ink on paper, 16,5 × 24,5 cm
Roma Gallery is pleased to present Christos Oikonomou: L’Infini terrible, the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The opening is on Thursday, 18 December 2025, from 7:00 pm to 9:00pm, with the artist present.
Curated by the art historian Alia Tsagkari, the exhibition brings together more than sixty works on paper created over the past five years, offering a representative view of the artist’s extraordinarily beautiful and provocative representations of the human form. The selected works are shown in conversation with “L’Infini terrible” that terrifies Ophelia’s blue eye in Arthur Rimbaud’s homonymous poem. Signaling the cataclysmic terror of an unlimited, unrepresentable danger that marks the escalation of tension, the “terrible infinite” is identified with the Lacanian Real: a traumatic core of jouissance and bodily dissolution.
As the exhibition’s curator, art historian Alia Tsagkari, notes: With a vertiginous plunge into Reality, Oikonomou tears open the curtain of pretence, proliferates formal ruptures, and exposes the Terrible Infinite as a rebuke to moderate pleasures, sensory indolence, and intellectual anhedonia. Within this maximalist conception of the world as a perpetual condition of life- affirming tension and hyper-stimulation, Oikonomou’s practice approaches the notion of trauma as an experience articulated through the ever-intensifying repetition of the initial stimulus.
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