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Walk the Cloud, 2020

from seclusion and destruction to playful movement and exchange under the open sky
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Walk the Cloud explores the interplay of limited and infinite space, movement and seclusion and how community can unfold in restricted times.

Since 2020 until today, visual artists Eva-Maria Gugg (Austria) and Rika Krithara (Greece) have been meeting online and have developed a series of simultaneous walks in the two countries.

They started by walking through parallel labyrinths that were constructed on the ground in Austria and in their imagined footprint in Greece and documenting the process, exploring the interplay of restricted movement and communication.The act of passing through a labyrinth, which is an act of intentional transformation, developed into a series of frequent walks and an exchange of material, thoughts and insights.
This ever evolving flow of artistic communication led to the project “Walk The Cloud”.

The project “Walk the Cloud” is about transition, community building and openness through the interaction of secluded and infinite space.

Eva-Maria Gugg mailed Rika Krithara a large bundle of paper strips of her paintings and drawings that had been passed through a shredder. At a series of walks with this bundle, strips were installed as floating clouds in the landscape.
As an epilogue Rika wore these strips around her and wandered into a desolate rocky place where the horizon appears unlimited.
The paper stripes go through a transformation to clouds, moving mountains or creatures invading the wide landscape.

“Walk the Cloud” was presented at the Schaumbad Ateliers in Graz, Austria (December 2020- March 2021) as a video installation of a split screen projection: the destruction of the works that took place in the enclosed space of Schaumbad and the transformation of the destroyed works into a creature or a cloud on the open horizon.