BE my GUEST | Press Release

Kyriaki Mavrogeorgi, FAR AWAY FROM HOME, 2017, 
Installation porcelain sculptures, dimensions variable

VZ studio presents its first event titled BE my GUEST with worksby artists: Angeliki Douveri, Kyriaki Mavrogeorgi and Maria Ikonomopoulou.

Angeliki Douveri -less than normal: 60 words about the 
beginning of 21st century, 2017, B/W video, 
dimensions variable

Angeliki Douveri’s work is part of a series of videos that she started making in 2001. In all of them, a pair of hands form, on an empty surface, a sequence of words made up by scrubble letters. In -less than normal, the succession of words refers to the “loss of the familiar”, creating free associations around comfort, wandering, lost hope. 
-less than normal: 60 words about the beginning of 21^st century,2017

B/W video

dimensions variable

In  Kyriaki Mavrogeorgi’s FAR AWAY FROM HOME installation, small scale sculptures form asequentialnarrative.The concept of processionhelps to grasp historical change, where the stories of people unravel often in dramatic ways. The scale of the sculptures which make up the installation, demand the closest possible viewing, allowing the viewer to familiarize with the drama of each consisting element.

FAR AWAY FROM HOME, 2017

Installation porcelain sculptures

dimensions variable

Maria Ikonomopoulou, Close, 2017,

Cut-outs, prints on Ηahnemühle paper, pins

90 x 130 x 6 cm.

Maria Ikonomopoulou uses iron door motifs that she has been photographing for years to create het work Close.She uses paper cut-outs and prints to create a surface which relates to a double iron gate, where traces of an archetypal form of house are also apparent.The door and the railings indicate the barrier between private and public space. The ambiguity of the titlerefers to something shut, as well as something familiar.

Close, 2017

Cut-outs, prints on Ηahnemühle paper, pins

90 x 130 x 6 cm.

The works presented are part of the artists’ proposals for the open call of the 6^th Thessaloniki Biennial titled “Imagined Homes”.

Opening: Friday 29th September 2017, at 20:30

Duration:  Friday 29th September - Friday 6th October 2017

Opening hours: daily 19:00 to 24:00 

VZ studio: Irodou Attikou 3, AnoLadadika, 54625 Thessaloniki 

tel.: 2310 553893

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