Dear friends and colleagues!
It’s been almost five months since the last studio newsletter, so I am excited to share some news with you! In September and October, my work is being featured in group exhibitions across Athens, Brussels, Cuneo, Middlesbrough, and Zurich. Scroll down to learn more about each of them!
Please note that in order to keep things concise, new projects will be announced in a separate newsletter in the next couple of weeks.
ATHENS. THE COLLECTIVE PURR |NOBEL BUILDING 4.10.2024 – 24.11.2024
This fall I have the pleasure of showing two of my most recent works in my hometown, Athens as part of the group exhibition The Collective Purr that is taking place at “Nobel” Building in Chalandri, Athens curated by Nadja Argyropoulou. The exhibition opens on Friday, 4 October, and lasts until Sunday, 24 November.
Telling The Bees is a new work, a part of which was presented a couple of months ago. While further developing it, I became immersed in the fascinating world of bees, upon whose existence we are entirely dependent.
The work follows a young woman in the near future, who after receiving a bee basket, called smarologos, she begins a thorough research on bees and their presence in the Aegean. The area is considered to be of the most species-rich regions of the Mediterranean, with many species and especially bees, currently threatened with extinction mainly due to land-use change.
She restores the basket using local materials, adds a guardian figurine, and sets out to find the last island bee swarm. The basket becomes a symbol of resisting extractive practices of overtourism and asserting potential perma-futures based on interspecies collaboration and coexistence. The title of the installation ‘Telling the bees’ describes a ritual observed across cultures, where bees are informed of important events in the household, believed to affect their well-being if neglected.
I can’t wait to share more with you on this installation. The first part of the work was created for the group show The One Straw Revolution curated by iLiana Fokianaki at Framer Framed in Amsterdam earlier this year.
THE FUTURE LIGHT CONE, 2023
The Future Light Cone will be also on view at the exhibition The Collective Purr curated by Nadja Argyropoulou.
The installation comments on the discourse surrounding the new space exploration, particularly since 2016 in Silicon Valley, which quite often evokes a colonial past. Space exploration often revolves around anthropocentric perspectives, where other worlds are portrayed as subjects to human agency. Can we forge a new language for exploring space, influenced among other things also by feminism? The Future Light Cone looks into an approach where other worlds possess agency, prompting reflection on recognizing knowledge systems beyond human cosmologies.
A new version of my work Perfect Love #couplegoals #AIgenerated will be presented at the group exhibition Love is Louder at Bozar, Brussels, opening on Saturday, 12 October .
The work investigates how everyday love and affection are expressed and declared online and its new adaptation, created after BOZAR’s invitation, further comments on the way AI mirrors our societies and the stories left untold.
In the processes of algorithmic training, labelling, and categorization, which narratives are included in the datasets, which ones are excluded, and who holds the authority to curate these narratives? Whose gaze produces the narrative? How are images of intimate love presented, labelled, generated and distributed online and what does this mean about civil, gender and sexual orientation rights?
The work was commissioned by Katerina Gregos in 2020 for the exhibition Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies), which has been touring in Athens, Freiburg, Tallinn and Utrecht.
UK. MIDDLESBROUGH ART WEEK 26.09.2024 – 05.10.2024 NOT ALLOWED FOR ALGORITHMIC AUDIENCES, 2021Not Allowed for Algorithmic Audiences, expanding its journey to different cities, will be on view between 26 September and 5 October as part of Middlesbrough Art Week 2024.
Not Allowed for Algorithmic Audiences is a multimedia installation that looks into AI, voice, digital assistants and listening infrastructures. A digital assistant in an Athenian apartment goes off routine and starts sharing insights on the above topics in an attempt to reconcile with humans and sharing tips on how not to be heard online.
ATHENS. ART ATHINA 2024 VIDEOS 19.09.2024 – 23.09.2024 DOLOMITES DATA GARDEN, 2022
The Mountain Islands Shall Mourn Us Eternally (Dolomites Data Garden) continues its tour following the last stop at Art Basel Video. The work will be part of ART ATHINA’s video programme, which is curated by Panos Gainnikopoulos and it will be running parallel to the fair between 19 and 23 September.
CUNEO. CONNECTING WORLDS – BACK TO THE MOUNTAINS 27.09.2024 – 29.09.2024
DOLOMITES DATA GARDEN, 2022
Afterwards the work returns to its natural environment as part of the group exhibition Connecting Worlds – Back to the Mountains in Cuneo, Italy. The show is curated by Andrea Lerda and will be on view between 27 and 29 September.
In a digital simulation of the Dolomites mountains, spanning from ancient epochs to the foreseeable future, we witness the evolution of the landscape. Beginning as a tropical archipelago, the simulation progresses to a near future, where native plant species migrate towards higher elevations in search of cooler temperatures.
Within this speculative narrative, a hybrid plant—a fusion of past and present—takes on the role of narrator. What if we were to truly listen to the voices of plants?
The work has been commissioned in 2022 by the 8th Gherdeina Biennale and curators Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos.
ZURICH. DIGITAL ART ZURICH 31.10.2024 – 10.11.2024 THE FUTURE LIGHT CONE, 2022
The Future Light Cone will be also on display at this year’s Digital Art Zurich, which will take place from 31 October to 10 November. If you happen to be in any of these cities during the exhibitions, please stop by! I’d love to hear your thoughts and observations, so do share them!
