Benign Land
Leandros Ntolas
Carlisle Memorial Church
Benign Land is a new artwork by Netherlands based artist Leandros Ntolas set in the imposing site of Carlisle Memorial Church. The artist has created an evocative installation that incorporates his long standing research into perception, architecture and light, and responds to the specificities of the site, while expanding his current research into creating interactive experiences using the medium of video games. The installation culminates in an interactive gaming experience on a large screen that invites the viewer to inhabit a fictional landscape that interweaves layers of history, folklore, literature and music relating to the land. A soundtrack composed in collaboration with Belfast based sound artist and lecturer John D’Arcy accompanies the work.
Benign Land is part of the Belfast 2024 celebrations and is generously supported by Belfast City Council, British Council, and the Mondriaan Fund. It is kindly sponsored by Visual Spectrum Studios and made possible through the support of The Belfast Buildings Trust.
About the artist
Leandros Ntolas (b. 1992, Greece) is a multidisciplinary artist based in The Hague. He holds a BFA in Sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts and an MMus in ArtScience from the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague. His work has been exhibited internationally with support by institutions such as the Mondrian Fund, Stroom Den Haag and Outset NL. Since 2019 he teaches at the ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague.