WE33(EMEIS33)@Art-Athina 2013
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“Drawers”
This project aimed for the PlatformProject 2013 consists of a network formed by a cluster of drawers. 33 artists coexisting, each one of them transforming a personal drawer into a place of social discussion, contradiction or a meeting point. The drawers interact with each other, while establishing at the same time a standalone and integrated, yet polyphonic event. The viewer selects his personal view of the work, opening and closing the drawers, thus interfering with the construction and constantly defining its final form.
The construction could be described as a space frame, as a network formed by a cluster of drawers-nodes. As such, it bears an inclusive, personal or domestic nature, and an outer hub that acts as a barrier or a bridge.
The project does disclose an absolute truth, discussing constantly with oneself and the whole. It is at the same time a machine-monster and a living organism in development.
In the receiving space, the viewer selects his personal view of the work, opening and closing the drawers, thus interfering with the construction and constantly defining its final form. Serving as a co-manufacturer of this fluid system, opening the drawers makes the viewer part of its content.
As random artistic existences “We” is a dream, a dream in which we are its parts, positive and negative, familiar and unfamiliar. Elements of this “We”, memory, weariness, travelling, uplift, in a place where anything is possible. In a wider context, however, it describes the passage of social and cultural forms from a steady state, to a “fluid” one.
The construction aims to manage and synthesize drawers by inviting them to interact with each other while establishing at the same time a standalone and integrated, yet polyphonic event. It carries, thereby, a representation in space of a social or cultural structure able to establish new conditions on a collective meaning within contemporary fluid social and cultural conditions.
The group of participating artists consists of:
- Alexopoulou Leda
- Antonopoulos Angelos
- Apostolou Evi
- Beroutsos Athanasios
- Brouzos Yannis
- Chalkiadaki Jenny
- Chrisou Maria
- Damianaki Evi
- Davvetas Demosthenes
- Diakoumis Stavros
- Diamantopoulou Georgia
- Dionyssopoulou Elizabeth
- Gavalas Stelios
- Georgariou John
- Hasiakou Dina
- Karavasilis Vasilis
- Kazazis Georgios
- Levendakou Magda
- Messinezis Luc
- Mpathas Athanasios
- Panayiotou Thanos
- Papageorgiou Kiriakos
- Papagianni Syni
- Papagiannis Theodore
- Patmios Vasilis
- Patraskidis Triantafyllos
- Patsios Constantinos
- Pavlikiani Kiriaki
- Perysinaki Vivi
- Sargentis Tassos
- Siagreece Panagiotis
- Spartalis Angelos
- Tsingiropoulou Elina