Metaphorically spanning from ancient Greece to today, the trilogy uses
kitsch as a language with which Scoufaras operates—a methodology that
generates a vocabulary challenging kitsch through persistent engagement.
Three films comprising The Trilogy of Terror — Panic, 2014, N, 2016, and Omphalos, 2016 change sequentially throughout the course of the exhibition. The
trilogy was shot during periods of heightened terrorist threats in
Europe and the United States. Scoufaras addresses terror as a collective
experience, asking how global events communicated through media impact
an individualistic society. Do the acts of violence emerge from a desire
for ownership—ownership of land or, perhaps, ownership of myths and
symbolism? Do we seek to possess belief systems or are we propelled by
them? How do we, collectively, experience terror?