Christos Michaelides takes up a traditional area of art history: landscapes. Using as his references the landscapes of European romanticism, he explores the relationship between representation and abstraction.

Landscape painting acquires another dimension. Mysterious forest areas dominate, where sometimes-geometrical shapes intrude into them and at other times they emerge from the earth. On a number of occasions in violent way-they continue their unending course towards the sky, sharpening up the spectator’s view and imagination, while creating a fluid and ambivalent situation, sometimes mysterious and threatening, but always a-temporal.

Combining the enigmatic presence of human figures, hovering into the sky, with the element of timelessness that holds a dominant position in the entire work, brings up to the disjunctive question: is it about a metaphor of the digital era, or is it a type of future archeology, if not a futuristic dystopia?

The work could also be viewed as an allusive comment on the timeless human perception of the landscape, as well as on the relationship between humans and the landscape: a dialectical, conflicting, and, therefore, political relationship