Pre-Text
is the first part of the large scale exhibition This
Is A Historic Opportunity For Us
(title taken from Antonis Pittas’ work). The idea of this
exhibition came up as an internal need and an immediate response to
the socio-political crisis that Greece has been through since 2009 as
it is one of the first European countries to confront the aftermath
of the global crisis. This Is A Historic Opportunity For Us is a
project that has been designed since 2012 aiming to find the
appropriate venue to host the exhibition in a European metropolitan
city.
Pre-Text
refers to socio-political conditions with connections to political
history and our perception regarding historical knowledge. Through
the works, the viewer “reads” a concrete political meaning that
depends upon the dialectic of individuality and collectivity at play
within a social system. They conjure up a universe of individual
worlds that invoke contemporary awareness and use it as a prism
through which to look upon how we experience reality. The artists
explore areas where there are no rigid distinctions between theory
and practice; where the boundaries between the two seem to blur.
Pre-Text
questions the ways in which the past is conceptually and contextually
reoriented towards the future. As a great number of contemporary
philosophers argue “prior” is the new “after” and the notion
of time transforms accordingly to continuous changes of social
conditions. The viewer faces an up-to-date historical record of art
that confronts the future as the present, art that talks about the
future with works, created the last five years and function as
knowledge tools to understand the present by reflecting it to the
future.
The
works suggest different readings and interpretations that aim to
provoke the viewer’s perception regarding global sociological
issues that affects one’s perception and individual participation
to a collective “status quo”.
Curated
by Ileana Tounta, Dimitrios Antonitsis and Katerina Nikou
Participating
artists :Dimitris Andreadis, Kostas Bassanos, Kostas Christopoulos,
Panos Famelis, Dimitris Foutris, Pavlos Fysakis, Christina
Koutsospyrou & Aran Hughes, Irini Miga, Fryni Mouzakitou,
Alexandros Papathanasiou, Theo Prodromidis, Kostas Sahpazis, Eva
Stefani, Dimitris Tsoumplekas, Kostis Velonis
8 May 2014- 21 June 2014.
The
Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center http://www.art-tounta.gr
