source: dazeddigital

Six years ago artist Alexis Themistocleous presented his first solo exhibition – “From Evolution to Revolution” – at the Morfi Gallery, in Limassol, Cyprus. Themistocleous explored then the possibilities offered by cloning and the consequences of faulty experiments, turning the gallery space into the “G.M.” laboratory, a genetic testing laboratory crammed with incubators with fetuses inside. As the years passed Themistocleous developed an entire story, entitled “A Superhero Is Born”, that moved from that first exhibition and revolved around his own genetic mutation into fashionably anarchic superhero, Theo-Mass Lexileictous.

An anagram of Alexis Themistocleous – with a name that can be translated as “The God of the Masses” (“Theo” refers to the Greek word “Θεός”, “God”), Theo-Mass is indeed the mutation of a scientist, brought to life after a toxic explosion, during the “From Evolution to Revolution” cloning experiment that also caused the mutation of the fetuses preserved in the incubators into monsters, the so-called freaks. Theo-Mass has recently printed his own currency – the Theo-Mass dollars – and, in an attempt to gain financial power, he will soon be travelling to London, New York and Paris to bring his insanity to the masses.