The route developed by Christodoulos centres on a generally worldly and material vision. The recomposed floors, the earth, the shoes (Untitled, 2015), the real rolled-up “red carpet” (Operation Serenade, 2012) and the theatre backdrop. A recurrent motif that has accompanied the artist’s work since 2007, the backdrop reproduces the line of the horizon in an “extra-theatrical” gesture and concept that alludes to a disenchanted perception of the theatre tradition.

In Venice, it was hung up and unfurled once again in a single action for The Parting Discourse at the Teatro Goldoni, a stone’s throw from the Pavilion. Folded up again, it lies on the undulating floor of Palazzo Malipiero, revealing a portion of printed sea and leaving the door open to the reading of another story.