“.Open up.Open up.” is a performance based on emotions. It examines the way that people open their souls to each other and "expose" themselves, without fear, without shame, without something holding them back. Why is it so difficult to trust and let someone enter your life? Why so much fear? Why so many open wounds?

This performance starts from a closed state, within the shell, within the bubble, when the personality is forming. Then the person begins to "open up". They open up to the world, to new possibilities, ideas and opportunities. Each piece of yarn symbolizes a different experience, whether it is positive or negative. Thus, every time a piece of yarn is spread across the room, is stretched by someone, it symbolizes this "opening" to the outside world, and that it is fully accessible to it.

Photo editor: Aris Makridi
Artistic assistance: Valeria Mirzac, Nikiforos Gavgiotakis