Inside as opposite of outside. You as opposite of me. There is always a distance in contrapositions and it's where Antonis Pittas' practice sharply operates.
The German word 'abstand' suggests both distance as spacing and distance as withdrawal. In Pittas' work words are experienced performatively, 'abstand' therefore becomes a territory in which to investigate the underlying tensions in contemporary society.
In 'Abstand' aspects from the language of traffic management are extrapolated and displaced, from the outside to the inside. As transitional spaces, roads are overlooked in our daily lives, while through a series of symbols our behaviours are silently decoded and directed, boundaries are created.