Nakis Panayotidis’ art is rooted in the truths of everyday life and history, escaping every idealistic temptation, on the contrary offering concrete traces of an aesthetic experience which owes its poetic valences to the materials of its time. Among them, the use of light represents an essential part of many of his works, attributable to the artists’ choice to use a photographic base in many of his works. All the same, the plastic elaboration of writings in neon – as signs of interiority – allows Panayotidis to formulate, along with an emblematic illumination of places and objects, an identifying and oracular pronunciation aimed at illuminating the darkness of our age and the conscience of every individual.