WE33(EMEIS33)@Platforms Project 2019
“The Tower of Babel”
We33 by Artia Gallery, a group comprised of seventy artists, sculptors, engravers, architects, photographers and designers, is taking part in the Platforms Project 2019 with “The Tower of Babel”. Each of the artists brings their personal stamp, their own artistic language that penetrates the concrete block, the building unit of the installation, making their contribution to the collectiveness of Babel.
According to the Bible, God put a halt to the building of the city and the tower of Babel that would reach the heavens by mixing the languages of the people and scattering them to the ends of the earth, hence the name Babel which means confusion.
Our installation portrays the confusion of Babel in today’s world, gives it new meaning and poses timeless questions through an artist’s eye. People and languages get mixed and interact with each other. At the same time this political statement studies the present day where there’s an influx of people, information, goods, money and ideas, where the need for communication takes gigantic proportions and distances get constantly reduced with the help of technology.
Within this dystopian present the human race is yearning a utopia that manifests through the poetry of life itself. It is our resistance that matters.
To quote Italo Calvino in “Invisible Cities”, “…seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of hell, are not hell, then make them endure, give them space.”
The group of participating artists consists of:
- LEDA ALEXOPOULOU
- CHRISTOS APOSTOLAKIS
- PANAGIOTA APOSTOLOPOULOU
- ATHANASIOS BEROUTSOS
- AGELIKI BOBORI
- BRETT DESPOTOVICH
- STAVROS DIAKOUMIS
- LEFTERIS DIMOPOULOS
- ELIZABETH DIONYSSOPOULOU
- EFI DOLTSINI
- GIOTA GEORGAKLI
- ANDROMACHI GIANNOPOULOU
- KLEIO GIZELI
- PENNY GKEKA
- MARIA GLYKA
- ALEXANDRA GOUDA
- DINA HASIAKOU
- KATERINA KALITSOUNAKI
- ARIS KAMAROTOS
- SPYROS KANAKIS
- VASILIS KARAVASILIS
- NEFELI KARYOFYLLI
- MARIANNA KATSOULIDI
- STAVROULA KAZIALE
- NIKOS KONSTANTOUDAKIS
- PENY KORRE
- SOPHIA KYRIAKOU
- ALEXIA KYRIAZOPOULOU
- DIMITRA LABRETSA
- FLAVIO LALOS
- PANAYIOTIS LAMPROU
- MAGDA LEVENDAKOU
- ERICA ΜENDRITZKI
- LEON MICHAIL
- IOANNIS MILONAKIS
- ANDREAS MITROPOULOS
- KATERINA MOKA MOUSIOU
- ADAMANTIA NIKA
- VIRGINIA NTAOULI
- PAGRATIS PAGRATIDIS
- KONSTANTINOS PANAGIOTOPOULOS-MICHALAS
- APOSTOLOS PAPAGEORGIOU
- BABIS PAPAGIANNIS
- THALIS PAPAKONSTANTINOU
- KONSTANTINOS PARDALIS
- MARIA PASTRA
- TRIANTAFYLLOS PATRASKIDIS
- CHRYSSANTHI PATRASKIDOU
- ELENI PECHLIVANI
- VIVI PERYSINAKI
- ELENA PRIFTI
- EVA RENTZOU
- ATHINA ROBIE
- TASSOS SARGENTIS
- MARY ELEN SAVRANI
- ANDREAS SITORENGO
- CHRYSA SKORDAKI
- DIMITRIS SKOUROGIANNIS
- GEORGE THEODORIDIS
- KONSTANTINOS TILIGADIS
- DORA TRIANTAFYLLOU
- ELENI TRIGKATZI
- ANNA TSAMKOSOGLOU
- ALIKI TSIGKRI
- IAKOVOS VAIS
- PAVLINA VEROUKI
- ROULA VIDALI
- IOANNA VLACHOU
- VASSILIS VLASTARAS
- BETTY ZERVA