LONG COVID
[2025]
VIDEO INSTALLATION
DOCUMENTARY
Long Covid, becomes a conceptual framework for approaching the prolonged symptoms of a politicised trauma. The exhibition reflects on the pandemic as a moment of rupture, highlighting the unresolved tensions and conflicts between dominant and unofficial narratives. At the same time, the project studies the discursive formations that have gained visibility and traction in the public sphere, most visibly since the 2008 financial crisis, mapping a terrain where ideology, affect, and narrative intertwine.
A multi-channel video installation composed of twenty interviews conducted by the artist with twenty individuals who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination delivers a spectrum of attitudes marked by skepticism toward the institutions of democracy, the state, and science, the work assembles a complex and often contradictory oral archive—an affective and ideological cartography of the pandemic experience. The focus here is not the epidemiological event per se, but the psychological, emotional, and political reverberations it triggered. It is an attempt to trace the internal logics and shifts of these subjects as they move from anti-systemic discourse toward narratives bordering on conspiracy theories.
Expanding on this inquiry, the exhibition also features parts of an ongoing, multimedia archive the artist began compiling between 2020–2022. This parallel body of work reflects a sustained attempt to document and register the ideological fissures and affective dislocations that ruptured—and continue to rupture—the social fabric in the wake of the pandemic.
Through a layered and performative methodology, Long Covid invites us to consider how ideological reconfigurations unfold during times of "permanent crisis"—whether economic, political, institutional, or epidemiological. The exhibition ultimately probes the crisis of meaning itself, as both a condition and a conceptual horizon.
From the exhibition text
Long Covid has been presented in Neocosmos- Laboratory for the Urban Commons
Curated by Laboratory for the Urban Commons(Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Pegy Zali, Panos Lianos).
