Christos Kalfas or the little theater of the reinvented imagination. “But then, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no meaning, who prevents us from inventing one?”

Populated with icons from another time, flowered Marylines, flying Mona Lisas and multiplied Alices, the works of Christos Kalfas are constructed like “random theatres”. His drawings grouped together in the exhibition "Once Upon a time", of a poetry as touching as fascinating, revolve around black and white photographs of famous or anonymous faces borrowed from the world of art, literature or the cinema. Cut from books or magazines from the beginning of the century, they slip over the surface of the work to infuse the paper with an anachronistic dimension, both "real" while being anchored in an atmosphere of a nostalgic bygone era. . For Christos Kalfas, these "heads" thus represent our "collective memory" with which he plays to create sketches from which everyone will compose their own story. Using exclusively black and white images to maintain a certain neutrality, he explores hundreds of collected images in search of the one that will have the right expression, the right size or the right position to compose his work. Once positioned on the paper, these heads then find a second life by incarnating themselves into so many colored figures which awaken during astonishing sketches. The decor settles, and the human comedy comes to life. It's a whole kaleidoscope of images and ideas that overlap to create a "narrative" that comes to be built in an indefinite space-time, without background or perspective, to be transformed into a singular form of "writing". .