Dafni Krazoudi: Guilty for Lampoon SOAP
The body stands as both witness and terrain: a shoot by Dafni Krazoudi and Spyros Rennt, echoing the performance GUILTY at OHM with MOLT in Berlin, tracing an archaeology of guilt both intimate and collective
Dafni Krazoudi: a body that doesn’t end
Dafni Krazoudi and Spyros Rennt weave fragments of experiences into images where the body stands as both witness and terrain. In words and photographs, desire doesn’t stay fixed. The shoot was inspired by Dafni Krazoudi’s performance GUILTY, presented at OHM with MOLT in Berlin. The work unfolded across a mound of soil as a tactile trace of rupture, mapping an archaeology of guilt both intimate and collective.
Dafni Krazoudi and Spyros Rennt: the transformation of the body through photography
I Pray for Your Smell to Stay is a meeting of poem and photograph, where one bleeds into the other. The text moves through states of the body: dissolution, permanence. Rennt treats photography like an archive, a way to hold onto intimacy within queer space. Text and image cross, creating a record of presence and what’s left behind.
The poem as meditation on memory, absence, and persistence: “The poem turns on the idea of a body that doesn’t end. A body shifting form into scar, stone, continent — but never gone. It works like a meditation on persistence, on how land, and the body’s own knowledge keep carrying what should fade. Fire, earth, silence — they pull the body into a slow curve of change. In that movement, traces flare, absence hardens into form. The smell that won’t leave sits at the center, staying as a kind of shedding, like the scent of a first lover pressed into the skin.”
Her way into the theme of soap came through its lack: “Thinking of earth, dirt, smell — how cleansing can also mean letting what lingers transform from the inside. In dialogue with the photographs, the work strips down to the elemental. In the end, it all folds back into the poem, as if body, land, language sink to the same ground. A loop of renewal: mother inside birth, birth inside grief, hole to house, house to stone.”
Dafni Krazoudi’s artistic practice between movement and metamorphosis
With a practice rooted in the alchemy of movement, Dafni Krazoudi disappears, morphs, reappears through an embodied exploration of psychology, metaphysics, and the forces shaping human meaning. Greek-born, Berlin-based, she follows the gravitational pull that marks human nature — shaping our lived experience while reaching beyond what we can name, into the unknown.
Performances and collaborations across Berlin, London and beyond
She studied Dance & Choreography at the Greek National School of Dance (2012–2015). Her recent works have been shown in Berlin at Neue Nationalgalerie, MOLT, OHM, Berlin Fashion Week 2024, Berlin Art Week 2023, and in London at ALICE BLACK Gallery. Collaborations include Anna Uddenberg for Art Basel Unlimited (2024), Punchdrunk International (2022), Johannes Wieland & Staatstheater Kassel (2018–2020), Documenta 14 (2017), among others.
I Pray for Your Smell to Stay
What you see is a body that never dies.
The mouth dissolves, the ears flatten.
Fingers turn to branches.
It petrifies, but never dies.
It washes in the temperature of fire.
I pray to the gifts that healed as scars.
What you touch is a body that never dies.
Lying in the sand,
it covers a whole continent.
A whole day to roll back and forth.
I pray to the silence before the oracle speaks.
All houses are holes.
All holes are stones.
What you hear is the voice within the milk.
One land cries for me.
One house born.
What you smell is a body that never dies.
What you see is a poem.
