Atlas Horribilis, A Novel of Inauthenticity. Documents of Occult and Paranormal Phenomena by Saprophytes.

Atlas Horribilis. Α Novel of Inauthenticity Documents of Occult and Paranormal Phenomena is a collective artistic project that focuses on finding, processing and assembling pre-existing material which is in a state of conceptual decay or disparagement. The “byproducts of this activity” are intended to form a visual pastiche and a new narrative framework, to multiply misreadings and recombinations.

Atlas Horribilis. Documents of Occult and Paranormal Phenomena proposes a new narrative form—the “novel of the inauthentic”—comprising a non-linear montage of findings, reproductions and documentary material. It includes cut outs from books, newspaper and magazine articles, details of news stories and comics, museum material and amateur photographs relating to a series of uncanny, occult, terrifying, paranormal phenomena. This comprehensive and ‘accidental’ collection is drawn exclusively from local sources, a fact which accentuates the local cultural framework of the mediascape.

The members of the Saprophytes 01 project are Nadja Argyropoulou, Marina Vranopoulou, Yannis Kouroudis, Malvina Panagiotidi, Yasemi Perou, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, Aris Tsoutsas. Saprophytes 01:Atlas Horribilis.

Author: Saprophytes

Publisher: Deste Foundation