Young Predictions discloses the notes of Cypriot painter Polys Peslikas, written between 2018 and 2025. These fragments—gathered in orbit around paintings made over the same period—reflect openly on the canon of painting both as a revered structure and an unruly and obscenely private, testimonial act. The book invites poet and writer Penelope Ioannou into an exchange with the material, her own notes slipping between Peslikas’ as a result of being granted entry into his canvases. Text and painting are placed into a distillery of sorts, where what was once left to its own devices now begins to dilate and react under new conditions. A chemical romance ensues, as Ioannou is drawn in by the seduction of his practice and the grain of his note-taking.
Text Edited by Penelope Ioannou
Texts by Polys Peslikas, Penelope Ioannou, Alessandro Rabottini and Andreas Ragnar Kassapis
Design by Studio Lialios Vazoura
