Landscape with Fountains – A Place of One’s Own
Exhibition - House of Annetta, 14-21 November 2024
‘Landscape with Fountains – A Place of One’s Own’ took place on the ground floor of House of Annetta in London. The exhibition contained three ceramic water fountains, some more modular ceramic sculptures, some smaller ceramic objects, a set of four imaginary bird nests, as well as 12 monoprints inspired by the colours of the sky. The work presented was produced in Shadwell Centre in the last 4 years. The objects can be disasembed to be combined in different arrangements. Here, they have been brought together to reference the shapes that can be found in a garden and draw attention to the processes that influenced their making. As is also mentioned in the extended version of the exhibition text, this is a garden of potentialities, which amongst other references, offers the opportunity to acknowledge London communities and reflect on the methodological potential of producing work within community spaces. Apart from the regular community events of House of Annetta, the exhibition was accompanied by two sound meditation sessions, offered by Cathy Eastburn, a talk titled ‘BEAUTY and WHY it matters’ by MILENA, and a playlist of Rebetika presented in the exhibition by Niki Soroli.
I would like to thank all contributors, Cathy Eastburn, MILENA, and Niki Soroli, for their generosity; Shadwell Centre for giving people opportunities to create ‘a place of their own’; and House of Annetta for their warm support, solidarity, and for making this exhibition possible.
The exhibition text is available here: https://389517.cargo.site/
Red Sea
Posters, 42 x 59.5 cm.
Red Sea consists of a stack of 500 posters that were available to visitors for free in Call/Köl showroom during Deptford X festival in 2023. The original artwork, a screeprint of a beach on the Lybian Sea, was created in response to the ongoing refugee crisis and the thousands of people who lost their lives at sea in the last 15 years. Fly-posting glue was made available outside the showroom. The work is accompanied by ‘A Short Story from Lesvos Island', a story from 'Walking Together: Collection of Short Stories on the Refugees’ Right to the City' that was kindly selected by the book's editor, Charalampos Tsavdaroglou, to accompany the exhibition.
Tsavdaroglou, C., Giannopoulou, C., Lafazani O., Petropoulou C. and Pistikos I. (eds.) (2020). Walking Together. Collection of Short Stories on the Refugees’ Right to the City. Thessaloniki-Mytilene: Invisible Cities.
The entire book is available through this link: https://aoratespoleis.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/walking-together.pdf
Skies
Monoprints, 42 x 59.5 cm.
Skies is a series of monoprints that I have been working on since 2021. The images are produced by manually mixing intaglio ink on an acrylic plate and then pressing the plate on paper through an etching press. The series is inspired by the sky and its various expressions. The meditative, repetitive process of making the prints, and circular movement of mixing the paint, are important factors in the work and my enduring engagement with it. Similarly, the aim of the resulting images is to absorb the viewer in the images’ hazy atmospheres. Some of these prints were presented in XXII International Print Biennial Varna, Bulgaria, in 2023.
Dialogues: A Hybrid Art Project is based on the exploration of hybrid spaces of exchange and art interventions that blend physical and virtual realities in new configurations. The project promotes notions of connectivity via art and interactions that blend private/public conceptions of space.
The first round of ‘Dialogues’ in July 2022, curated by Elisavet Kalpaxi with the valuable help of Konstantinos Panapakidis, sought to instigate a dialogue between eight artists. The participating artist exchanged artworks and installed them in their personal spaces for a period of 10 days. During that period the artworks were publicly available on this site through relevant documentation and live streaming events (Dialogues #1).
Alongside the virtual exhibition, the project involved a series of discussions between the artists to enable further interactions and reflections. Part of this, was the decision to invite more artists to form their own rounds of dialogues. We created an instructional booklet, our ‘formula’, which describes all the processes involved in making the project, and which can be found on the menu of this site. It is envisioned that some new rounds of Dialogues will be instigated in July every year, with a shared opening event. But the formula is available for appropriation according to the participants’ priorities.
Into the Garden
Woven silver prints and thread, 42.5 x 42.5 cm.
This is a series of woven images that I started working on in 2013. The idea draws on a work I completed a year earlier, the Cliff with Pine Trees triptych (see archive), which was meant to manually reproduce the polyphase effect of the black-and-white composite images that I was working on during that period. In these works instead of digitally composing the images, I am weaving strips from different images to bring different elements together. Weaving makes visible the image’s construction. It also links the image’s narrative to different traditions and forms of labour linked to mythologies of femininity.