Niko Abramidis &NE, Alpha Conference Table, 2018/2020

2018

Medium

Limestone, steel, glass lens, LCD screen, variable objects and video loop (10:26 min)

Dimensions

235 × 152 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156191

A raw stone slab forms an archaic-looking conference table: on the Alpha Conference Table (2020) petrified tablets and symbolic objects of a supposed work reality are lying on the tabletop. A lens-shaped screen is embedded in the middle of the stone table, around which the symbols N, Ω and Σ seem to be carved like the four cardinal points. Due to the convex curvature of the monitor, the video, which shows cryptic formulas, is distorted and at the same time evokes a magic ball that can tell the future. With Alpha Conference Table, Niko Abramidis &NE translates our meeting culture into a world in which not a community, but a manager directs the company's fortunes. Adjacent to a single empty coffee cup lies the tablet Trade Secret (2016), on the screen of which a reptilian creature is drawn, marching in front of pyramids and a skyline of the future. This perspective, in which a futuristic aesthetic is combined with ancient styles - here the pyramid with the high-rise buildings – can also be described more precisely by the term "future archaeology".