| Christos Kalos is a Greek artist who has worked for a period of 3 years with the subject of digitalized, old school, online, pornography. “I was sick of watching porn frames and I even started hating sex!” he stated at the completion of his project, since he spent most of his time sampling out shots for his artistic creation. His original and inventive work aims the delineation of the current sexual needs of the contemporary individual in any aspect – biological, racial and social. | 
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Christos Kalos is a Greek artist who has worked for a period of 3 years with the subject of digitalized, old school, online, pornography. “I was sick of watching porn frames and I even started hating sex!” he stated at the completion of his project, since he spent most of his time sampling out shots for his artistic creation.
His original and inventive work aims the delineation of the current sexual needs of the contemporary individual in any aspect – biological, racial and social. With it, he demonstrates how the two fundamental, adjacent layers of sexuality – the physical and the mental – have been circumscribed by modernism, and brutally dissevered, one from the other, by post-modernism. The mental overpowers the physical and outspreads through the streaming lines of the World-Wide-Web.
Eudaimonia consists of processed, erotic imagery from web-acquired samples, merged together and multiplied for the creation of a series of identical, self-induced moments eluding time and entering the realm of digital hyper-reality. Its colors are too vivid to establish a depicted simulation of the physical, but intense enough to capture senses and evoke an immense, cortical, sexual activity, followed by a latent, extended and escalated somatic response.
Adjacent to this basic work, C. Kalos has also created wondrous embellishments, such as re-upholstered with his motives, antique, art-nouveau furniture, and a magnificent long Baroque dress, the fabric of which was specifically designed and manufactured with the decorative pattern of one of his images. These ornaments were used at his first installation in a five-star hotel in Athens, and established what the visitors conceived as an aberrant but ingenious, erotic parlor.
What I see in Eudaimonia is the clear demand for fractal flesh – this re-emerging same libidinal pattern and our constant distancing from the body. It is the projection of our urges in the digital topography of the Internet, the phantasm of our dissipated bodily needs and the hope for a novel appreciation of computerized, erotic aesthetics.
What the body wants, the mind could get. What the mind desires, the mind gets.
Christos Ganos
04.10.07
