The artists Giorgos Giatromanolakis, Marina Papadakis, Natalia Papadopoulou and Maros Fasoulis deal with the concept of the in-between space
On January 18, 2024 CITROËNE Gallery presents the Liminality exhibition at its premises in Athens. With this exhibition, the gallery introduces another current problematic.
These are issues that arise from the fluid reality of our days, which overturns traditional ways of being, identity and life – willingly or unwittingly. The transitional stage of the establishment from one condition to another is described on an individual and collective level and the consequent ‘rituals’.
The artists Giorgos Giatromanolakis, Marina Papadakis, Natalia Papadopoulou and Maros Fasoulis deal with the concept of in-between space.
Liminality, Liminality in its Greek version, is a term introduced by the French ethnographer Arnold van Gennep in his book “Rites of Passage” in 1909. It is the middle stage of the tripartite scheme “separation, transition, integration into rituals”. The exhibition repositions this concept in the context of modern experiences, a consequence of global developments. The curator of the exhibition, Vicky Tsirou, expands the meaning of the term and examines its contemporary expressions. As she points out in her editorial text, “the most recent interpretations of the term encompass not only the concept of ritual but also changes in the realm of the social and the political. Today, in the era of ‘liquid modernity’, we observe that the status quo, an entire system of values, is in a condition of continuous instability characterized by successive transitions, or in other words, by a permanent condition of marginality”.
The works in the exhibition trace ‘Limitedness’ through four invisible passages: the architectural structure, the flow of history, the integration of tradition, as well as the inner experiential process. The exhibition does not strictly identify each artist’s work with one theme, but tends to place it on one of these four axes. The works are integrated into the architectural structure of the gallery. They are placed in different rooms in a way that echoes van Gennep’s simile of society with a house and its different rooms. The transitions in the life of individuals and social groups resemble a movement between the interior spaces of the residence.
The biographies of the artists
Marina Papadakis
Marina Papadakis (1991) was born in Athens, where she lives and works. She studied painting at the School of Fine Arts of the Athens University of Fine Arts (2010-2015) and at the University of Arts in Poznań, Poland (2014), while she did post-graduate studies at the Luca School of Arts in Brussels (2017-2018).
Her work focuses on mechanisms of power with social and environmental impact, as well as on the architectural interpretation of space. The references in her works are found in historical and social events, as well as the concept of system through the repetition of patterns.
As part of her research she has coordinated art groups at the Attica Psychiatric Hospital and has presented her work around socially engaged art at conferences at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the House of Representatives of Cyprus.
She is also the founder of the Hydroexpress Project, a hybrid artistic space housed in a plumbing shop. She has been awarded the ARTWORKS scholarship of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2019), while she has been awarded an honorary distinction for her work by PPC (2022).
He has taken part in exhibitions and artist hosting programs in Greece and Europe, such as:
- Little Ladies, BacktoAthens, Megaro Isaia (Athens, 2023),
- 1922-2022: Exit-Exit, former Public Tobacco Factory, (Athens, 2023),
- PPC meets Art, Historic Power Plant (Athens, 2022),
- Bauhaus meets the commons, Goethe Institute (Athens, 2019),
- RE—BUILDING CASS, Kanal Foundation (Brussels, 2018),
- Toflower, toflow, Sint-LucasBrussels, (Brussels, 2018),
- Odetothesea, Hellenic Cultural Foundation, (Odessa, Ukraine, 2016),
- AkcjaAukja, CentrumKulturyZamek, (Poznan, Poland, 2014).
Natalia Papadopoulou
Natalia Papadopoulou (1989) was born and lives in Athens.
He holds an MA in Directing and Documentary from Doc Nomads (2014), an inter-university program of the Luca School of Fine Arts in Brussels, the Academy of Theater and Cinema (SZFE) in Budapest and the Lusofona University in Lisbon.
Visual artist and director, he explores the concept of subjectivity through visual videos, performances, installations and mixed media practices.
Relying on experiential experiences around light, sound, animation and language, she investigates through her work the function of art as a catalyst for the activation and liberation of the “poetic self” of the individual.
Maro Fassoulis
Maro Fasouli (1980) was born and lives in Athens.
She studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2000-2005), where she also completed her postgraduate studies at the Department of Visual Arts (2009). In her work she reexamines traditional art and architecture at their base, bringing to the surface relationships between embodied practices, work and gender.
The embodied practices of measurement and construction and field research that characterize her work focus on notions of individuality and the whole, as well as issues of human intervention in the environment.
He is a founding member of the visual group Under Construction Group (2008). She has been awarded for her work with the Art Prize of the G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation (2023) and has also received the ARTWORKS scholarship of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2021).
She has held two solo exhibitions: “From Elbow to Wrist”, at the Arts Center of the Municipality of Athens, OPANDA (Athens, 2020) and “Picnic in North Korea”, CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery, (Athens, 2017).
In addition, he has participated in group exhibitions and artist residencies, including:
- Persephone’s Nightmare, (Tinos, 2023),
- Limassol after development what? (Limesos, 2022),
- WeavingWorlds, Deree, American College of Greece (Athens, 2022),
- Four-plusone Elements, Kinono Artist Residency, (Tinos, 2022),
- AthenSYN II: GOING VIRAL,
- Gallery Steinzeit, (Berlin, 2022),
- Idyllia Odos, Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens (Athens, 2022),
- Radium Palace, K-GoldTemporaryGallery, (Lesvos, 2021),
- Ta Dimodi, Museum of Folk Art and Tradition “Aggeliki Hatzimichalis” (Athens, 2019),
- To Tinos, Tinos Cultural Foundation (Tinos, 2013) and
- Ek Neo, National Museum of Contemporary Art EMST, (Athens, 2013).
Giorgos Giatromanolakis
Giorgos Giatromanolakis (1986) was born in Zaros, Crete, lives and works in Athens.
His artistic practice focuses on experimental photographic techniques, analog printing processes, artistic publications and audiovisual installations.
He has published three photography books: Roadblock to Normality, Not provided and The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings. He is a co-founder of the artistic space Zoetrope Athens and a member of the editorial team of Phases magazine.
He has been awarded the ARTWORKS scholarship of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2019).
He has been recognized for his work with the Foam Talent Award(2020) and an honorary title at the Gomma Grant (2018) and was nominated for the international photography prize Prix Pictet (2019) and the Voies Off Awards (2018), among others.
Among the exhibitions he has participated in are:
- International Contemporary Photo Festival Incadaqués, (Catalonia, 2023),
- Photobiennale, MOMus-Museum of Modern Art (Thessaloniki, 2023),
- Landscape Stories, MOMus – Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Thessaloniki, 2022),
- Foam-Talent, Fotografiemuseum (Amsterdam, 2021),
- Verzasca Foto-Festival, (Switzerland, 2020),
- Belfast Photo Festival, (United Kingdom, 2019),
- Emop (Berlin, 2020),
- Beyond Boundaries, Aperture Gallery, (New York, USA, 2019),
- Photo ESPAÑA (Spain, 2019),
- Salondela Photo, (Paris, 2019),
- Circulation(s) Festival, (Paris, 2019),
- Moving Museum of Photography, (Baku, 2019),
- Museum of Contemporary Art,
- Mattatoio (Rome, 2018),
- Festival de Fotografiade Tiradentes, (Brazil, 2018),
- International Felifa Prize (Argentina, 2018)
- and Month of Photography (Los Angeles, 2018).
Source :Skai
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