Stillness of Power 2 - Tereza Palaiologou
Limited edition – Certificate of authenticity included
Format 90 × 60 cm
🔹 Print only: €750
🔹 Canvas mounted on a frame: €1,200
🔹 Lamination on Dibond: €1,200
🔹 Plexiglas finish (liquid glass effect): €1,800
Format 120 × 80 cm
🔹 Single draw: €1,300
🔹 Canvas mounted on a frame: €2,000
🔹 Lamination on Dibond: €2,000
🔹 Plexiglas finish (liquid glass effect): €2,400
Stillness of Power 2 presents a city as it was after the event.
Not destroyed, but emptied. Exposed.
The skyscrapers stand in an almost ritualistic stillness. Each tower seems autonomous, detached not only from our gaze but also from the other structures that surround it. They do not converse—they coexist. Vertical masses closed in on their own silence, they establish a cold order where the architectural scale surpasses human experience.
The black sky serves not as a backdrop: it acts as a void. It offers no depth, only absence. As if all continuity, all narrative promise, had been suspended. What remains is a dense, immobile, almost definitive present.
The water, dark and heavy, offers no passage. It becomes a border, a deliberate maintenance of distance. Its surface seems to hold back movement, to refuse approach.
In the center, a boat crosses the scene. It does not dominate; on the contrary, it emphasizes the imbalance of proportions. The human presence appears reduced, almost marginal—a discreet note within a sovereign architecture.
Through this image, Tereza Palaiologou continues her exploration of the relationship between humans and the built environment. Geometry, silence, and light create a subtle tension, where the formal power of the city paradoxically reveals a form of isolation.
The image places us in front of an architecture that does not welcome — but that asserts.
