‘’Θάρρσος’’ (tharrsos) is a Greek portmanteau word, created by combining the two nouns ‘’θάρρος’’ (tharros, courage) and ‘’θράσος’’ (thrasos, audacity). These are the behavioural features of Musca Domestica, commonly known as a housefly. These pests enjoy eating and drinking, as if belonging to the bourgeoisie of each season. As a result, faecal matter is created almost continuously, reflecting the natural absorption of the modern, sleepless, endless world of production and consumption.

Houseflies might be the most commonly encountered insect in our world, and are largely associated with humans, as they accompany them around the globe, being the cause of numerous deaths (they have been used as a component in Yagi bombs during WWII, being great carriers of harmful pathogenic micro-organisms, etc). I took over the space in the kitchen of the School of Fine and Applied Arts in Aristotle University to place these cohabitants in their place of action. I used the remains of a daily routine in my attempt to render them unapproachable and suffocating for the human being, while also using them as a reminder of the fluidity concerning the vicious cycle we call hunter and prey. Houseflies’ repulsiveness and passion for human waste are a reflection of those unconsciously rejected by the memorandum. We are what we shit.

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