Andreas Angelidakis (b. 1968, Athens, Greece) lives and works in Athens, Greece. Trained as an architect before turning to art, Angelidakis freely describes himself as “an architect who doesn’t build’. He sees his practice as ‘architecture by exhibition’, halfway between the tradition of paper architecture and participatory artistic practices.
Presented as immersive installations co-constructed with the public, his “Soft Ruins” modules can be assembled infinitely and transformed into new and fun living spaces. Fascinated by ruins of the Athenian urban landscape, both ancient and recent—contemporary buildings abandoned as a result of the crisis—he invokes the notion of ‘post-ruin’, telescoping different temporalities into an “ultracontemporaneousness”. Using design software and the Internet, he builds virtual worlds to foster the emergence of other forms of sociality in the age of social media—digital architecture to reconfigure the exhibition space. In his videos and 3D animations, he addresses the issue of the specific nature of archaeological sites in the age of digital ubiquity, anticipating the ruins in the making of our contemporary era.
