KOMMA with Eleni Ploumi

In collaboration with Dans Brabant, we invited choreographer Eleni Ploumi to comment on the exhibition Question Mark.

Eleni Ploumi is danseres en choreografe. Ze studeerde af aan het Bachelor of Choreography-programma aan de FONTYS school of arts (2016). Als performer werkte ze bij verschillende gezelschappen als Katja Heitmann, United-C en T.R.A.S.H. Ze maakt sinds 2020 deel uit van het PLAN talentontwikkelingstraject van Dans Brabant.
Eleni always performs in her own shows because she is fascinated by the strong relationship between her and the audience during a performance. She tends strongly towards performance art and her work is characterised by high and intense physical activity combined with theatrical elements.

"The idea of being alone in an exhibition space, a space meant for people to walk around, is peculiar; let alone spending an entire week there. Space needs movement to be experienced, words hung like clothes, waiting to be worn. I missed life immensely and that feeling had to be part of my commentary on this exhibition. For this creation, I felt the need to remove life from my presence and bring it back in a different form. The artworks acted as a compass for the physical movement, which then allowed me to embrace the human emotions and state of being that emerged from these pure movements.

Lora is an inanimate body that grabs movement from its surroundings and returns it to a vivid form."