Epoxy Sculpture #3 (hanging transparent sandbags)

Danai Anesiadou’s practice responds to the escalating political, social, and spiritual crises of the present. In a recent act of self-divestment, she gathered her personal belongings and cast them in epoxy resin, mixing in metal shavings and quartz crystals to form “orgonites,” objects associated with the conversion of negative energy into positive. The gesture transforms not only possessions, but also the charged residue of use, attachment, and memory they are thought to hold. Here, the resin is poured into moulds of translucent sandbags and presented suspended, their clarity exposing an interior archive without hierarchy: cables and chargers, an iPod, numbing cream, a miniature plastic candelabra from a 39th birthday cake, a mirror, a head-massage tool, hooks, a voice recorder, a belt, a remote control for something forgotten, and kitchen utensils. A battery-powered LED strip emerges from the form but remains inert. The light will never turn on. Energy is promised, then withheld. Rather than adding more objects to an already saturated world, Anesiadou repurposes what exists. The work was produced for her solo exhibition “D POSSESSIONS” at WIELS, Brussels (2023), and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2023–2024).