Exhibition opens at Strychnin Gallery, Berlin - Sept 13th at 7pm.
Nephelococcygia pronounced ne-fê-lê-kak-’si-jee-yê is a term used when people find familiar objects within the shape of a cloud. At one time or another, humans have looked up to the clouds and imagined shapes resembling familiar objects. First coined in the play The Birds written in 414 B.C. by the Greek comic poet Aristophanes where two Athenians, Pisthetaerus and Eulpides become fed up with the corruption
that seems to govern their city, find a solution in leaving for a better future in a better place by turning into birds and immediately begin planning a city they decide to call “Nephelococcygia” refering to their imaginary city and in literary terms meaning ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land.’

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