
Dear Kairos,
- Publisher
- Skinnerboox
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 978-88-94895-65-0
- Specifications
- Swiss binding
16.5 x 24 cm
128 pages
Gold hotfoil
Text by Simon Bray
Design by Milo Montelli and Simon Bray
FE+SK Book Award 2023
Shortlist Rencontres d'Arles Prix du Livre 2023
Created over two weeks on the streets of Athens, Dear Kairos is a letter to the Ancient Greek considerations of time. The viewer is invited to consider the Kronos, the linear, mechanistic and determined passing of clock and calendar time, and the Kairos, serendipitous, opportunistic and boundless time. Through the use of repeated scenes and careful sequencing, Dear Kairos asks the viewer to consider moments loaded with significance that can be pushed through and embraced in order to distinguish, as Frank Kermode writes, between mere chronicity and times which are concordant and full, avoiding that which is fixed and easy to categorize, instead looking to embrace a boundless lack of beginning or ending.