Using
Efstathiou’s wall piece Cloud Chamber as
a starting point, this two-person exhibition and short residency at
New Court Gallery has been informed by aesthetic qualities extracted
by a scattered Physics glossary and the co-habitation of two
differentiated art practices. Under the conditions of the ‘isolated’
environment of the empty exhibition-studio space reminiscent of a
cloud chamber as ‘a
sealed environment where charged particles may leave ionized tracks
distinctive in various shapes indicating different types of
collisions’, Maria Efstathiou and Margarita Myrogianni have merged
their artistic practices by coming up with mixed-media explorations
through aesthetic interpretations inspired by such scientific
terminology. Annihilation, energized particles, matter and
anti-matter, growth formation, suspension of phenomena, have been
phrases used during the artists’ stay whilst working on new and
existing work brought in from their Athens studios. The outcome of
this endeavor has involved exposing their methodologies by focusing
on the preparatory stages and seeing the process as the end product
via a metaphorical take on the term pair production
as ‘a
direct conversion of radiant energy to matter’.
Text by Maria Georgoula
New
Court Gallery, Repton, Derbyshire, Feb.2015
