Platforms Project 2019 EN

Platforms project 2019

For this year’s Platforms project V Z studio presents work by the following seven artists in a show curated by Vasilis Zografos:

Dimitris Ameladiotis, Filippos Gountzos, Angeliki Douveri, Kyriaki Mavrogeorgi, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Panos Profitis, Despina Charitonidi.

The distinctive trait of these seven art practitioners is the unusual way of handling their material as well as the structural interweaving and sequences created.      

Dimitris Ameladiotis puts together varied materials, each supporting and holding the other as a base, a starting point and foundation of an act and a condition. As a result everything is simultaneously enriched with additional meanings. Through this bond, contradictory conceptual pairs such as those of affinity and heterogeneity, of composing and decomposing, of the literal and the metaphorical are strongly emphasized.

Filippos Gountzos conjoins various solid materials like metals and wood in order to attribute a double condition to the narration created. On the one hand restraint and entrapment, but on the other hand a dynamic form distortion which dictates to be dealt with as a new organic entity with a visible frame.

Angeliki Douveri with her sculpture “VOID” and the video “-less than normal: 60 words about the beginning of 21 st century”, 2017 -one of several such videos since 2001- makes Lettriste forms and word sequences using Scrabble letters. In –less than normal the succession of words formed relates to the idea of “loss of the familiar”, to connotations on consoling, wandering and lost hope.

Kyriaki Mavrogeorgi in her “Pillow stories” looks at the fragmentation of dream recollection and the connection between disparate components and their fragments during the narration of a dream. Here porcelain pieces together with other elements on a feather pillow construct the narration of an incomprehensible dream.

Maria Ikonomopoulou in her piece «Part of All» recycled drawings from her academicals studies on cotton. She then turned the fabric into quilt by embroidery and formed 12 “sleeves” with it. The result is an assemblage of similar parts into an entirety, that refers to collectivities and differentiations.

Panos Profitis shows a unique ceramic head on a metal stand, which also works as an instrumental element of the entire sculptural proposal. It is a constructed network of architectural design where the counter-supported structures, in a rather rudimentary rationale of formations, allude to buttresses. The final composition resembles a trapped portrait. The title “Yank” refers to the name of the main character in Eugene O’ Neill’s play “The Hairy Ape”.

Despina Charitonidi examines the ideas of weight, balance and the relation between familiarity and authority. This particular installation shows ceramic shark fins on iron bars which indicate their course in the water. Her visual comment refers to the fishing of shark fins, which are the animal’s Achille’s heel; when cut, the shark sinks and dies.