What bodies want to do

Hey, Botanic Stranger!

Something like a poem, a nude, and flowers in a vase
Feeling that way
Work, work, work, not

She left, she left again, she left once more
Falling into whispers and kisses 
Reclining Artist, the Artist is Reclining 
Making a film in solitude and in conversation with others (video)
The Importance of Reading, Writing, and Exfoliating
Look for love and find a log instead (publication)
When I met Murakami’s cat (video & text)
There, only feet matter (video)
May I introduce my friend

He came, he didn’t stay
A book, a film, and a soundtrack
She was whistling, he was shooting
Economy Class
Crack, Crack, Pop, Pop…Oh what a relief it is!
Now you see me, oh now you don’t! 
My crap is Bigger than yours!
Mark

Poems for him


English
21 x 29.7 cm
38 pages
100 copies

Printed in Athens, 2023

A collection of poems by artist Eleni Bagaki firstly written in 2016. Typed on her mobile phone in English, in a standard font, they were initially saved as pdf files and then printed individually on A4 sheets. The texts function as haikus, as short phrases of
a first-person narrative addressed to a single recipient: "Him."







She left, she left again, she left once more


English
13 x 20 cm
144 pages
400 copies

Printed in Athens, 2022

A book by artist Eleni Bagaki, written over the course of a 3 year traveling and living from place to place in the context of art residencies. In an existential quest, she traveled to Hucisko, Berlin, São Paulo, Stockholm, Fogo Island, and Bergen before moving back to Athens. The above cities become the background where the artist explores the act of leaving/living in the search for happiness and some kind of meaning.

Butter and Cracker


English, Greek
28 × 23.5 cm
46 pages
200 copies

Printed in Athens, 2022
Published by miss dialectic & DOLCE

Α script by Eleni Bagaki, written to be read as an autonomous text, without the intention of making it into a film. HE and SHE meet and try to get to know each other. Their conversations about love, art, and food unfold how different they are from each other. However, as they get closer to one another and perhaps even fall in love, they suddenly realize they are trapped in the script itself. They begin to question their intentions and whether they can define their own actions independently. Will they choose to flip the script? If so, what will happen?

No Script


English
28 × 23.5 cm
70 pages
300 copies

Printed in Athens, 2017

A book by artist Eleni Bagaki inspired from a failed romantic relationship between a female artist and a male filmmaker. They meet and try to become a couple. She wants to make a film. His script is bad. They break up. She keeps looking for a story to shoot when she realizes that the relationship itself, and the process of processing it through her art, should be the film.

Look for love and find a log instead


 English
16 × 23 cm
24 pages
100 copies

Printed in Krakow, 2017

A book written and published during Eleni Bagaki’s stay at the Kantor Foundation, Poland. The project is about the artist who stays alone in the remote village of Hucisko. She lives and works in solitude while she only keeps contact with the program’s curator via emails. Inspired by their conversations and the wilderness of the place, she writes a love story about the challenge of being alone while there is no one around to fall in love.