Yiannis Argyriadis, who together with Maria Dellaporta edited the exhibition, explains that his own goal was to highlight the way confinement works in a hen house.
While the Irini Kayabini, “soul” of the Cultural Neighborhood in the Municipality of Neapolis-Sykeon, he told the visual artist Giannis Argyriadis that the building where the Refugee Museum is housed probably “used to be two chicken coops”, he at the same time began planning the exhibition “Invitations from/to two chicken coops”, which continues until July 13, 2022, in a of the most beautiful, but unknown museums of Thessaloniki (Evrou 49, Sykies).
Yiannis Argyriadis, who together with Maria Dellaporta edited the exhibition, explains to APE-MPE that his own goal was to highlight the way confinement works in a chicken coop.
Forty artists were inspired by his idea, each and every one expressing in their own unique way, the relationships that develop between two chicken coops that… talk face to face with each other.
“Hens, chickens, roosters and eggs are reduced to performative fields through which existential questions are constantly formulated, value rejections are expressed, gender inequalities are constructed, social correlations are highlighted and social disparagements are (de)clared, as for many people it is considered indisputable that “whoever interferes with the bran, the hens eat him”, writes in the text of the report. Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department of History, Archeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly, Eleftheria Deltsou.
A fox lurking outside the henhouse, an artist who has been photographed with eggs completely coincidentally for two years, his poem Savva Giatzoglou the “Egg” – “Round loneliness So that you don’t know Which is the beginning Which is the end” – roosters symbolizing power and verbosity, people behind bars, a jewel of eggs with references to the war in Ukraine are just some of the exhibition works.
The guided tour of the Museum’s two-story building closes with the curator’s video installation, in which, behind a dividing ribbon, the excerpt from the film “Wake up Santa” with the poet Fanfaras is shown. “If the sane people are outside, they should come in and the crazy people who are inside, should come out”, notes Yiannis Argyriadis, referring to the story of the well-known 1969 film with George Konstantinou.
The unknown cultural neighborhood of the city invites the young
About a decade ago, old refugee houses in the Municipality of Neapolis-Sykeon were renovated and turned into creative spaces. In addition to the building that houses the Refugee Museum, there are ten more buildings that host free workshops from ceramics, sketching and theater to making musical instruments.
An invitation to young people to make use of these spaces for rehearsals and various artistic events, she addresses Irini Kayabiniresponsible for the Neighborhood.
“Here they will not disturb anyone, on the contrary they will give life”, he emphasizes.
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