Opening: Sunday, 20 October 2024
Duration: 20 October 2024-24 May 2025
Venue: 73 Mitropoleos Street, Kastoria, Greece
Curator: Dr. Eva Kekou
Participating Artists: E. Agopian, M. Kassi, P. Kliafa, E. Mourad, T. Tatolas
Peggy Kliafa participates with the artworks:
ARMOUR or SLIMMING DRESS
2019/2022
Armour/dress on a metal hanger made of empty blisters of pills that treat cholesterol and obesity, alluminium sheet, plexiglass, screws, medical IV pole with wheeled base and stop
190 x 60 x 54 cm (dress on hanger: 104,5 x 60 cm)
ARMOUR or MIGRAINE KILLER DRESS – HOMAGE TO ANDY WARHOL
2019/2022
Armour/dress on a metal hanger made of empty blisters of pills that treat migraines and painkillers, alluminium sheet, plexiglass, screws, medical IV pole with wheeled base and stop
190 x 60 x 54 cm (dress on hanger: 104,5 x 60 cm)
The curator’s text:
The group exhibition entitled Windowscapes – Reflections of urban landscapes – in the shop windows of Mitropoleos street aims at the revival of closed spaces. Each display window is considered as an autonomous and independent landscape. In the context of the shopfront, a “new story” is created that is reborn through the web that the imprint of memory weaves in space.
As autonomous units of aesthetic presence, the storefronts function as a mirror of the urban landscape. It is a space that includes all the pre-existing conditions that regulate it, as well as the economic and social parameters that co-create it.
Each of the five participating artists uses the ambiance and memories inherent in the shops of Mitropoleos Street as “raw material” and inspiration for their work.
The shop windows in which the artworks are exhibited create a “filter” – from a visual perspective – through which the external landscape reflects the internal one, with the philosophical reflection that it may involve. At the same time, the display windows allude to the multiple, invisible but also indiscernible dividing lines, as well as the individual classifications that have been developed. The exhibition aspires to create a heterotopia within which different times and newly mediated spaces are contrasted.
Dr. Eva Kekou