Chez
Eux: Unseen Collections maps a network that
has
not yet been historically recorded. It uncovers
an
unseen and intimate contemporary art circuit and
depicts
the real and substantial presence of people
intersecting
in each other’s lives, revealing influences
on
their artistic practices through a reality that is
reliant
on memory.
The
art collections of 25 Greek artists covering a
spectrum
from the 70’s until today, are exhibited in
Chez
Eux: Unseen Collections. The project displays
works
that have been gifted or acquired through exchange
between
artists. These artworks are accompanied
by
selective archival material, illustrating the
relationships
between them; the archive varies from
books,
ephemera, correspondence, photos, drawings,
clothes
and other paraphernalia of emotional
value.
The artists discuss their relationships in interviews
presented
as video installations.
In
Chez Eux: Unseen Collections, historiography is
perceived
as a creative practice and a form of production,
which
ultimately embodies the process of
uncovering
and discovering. It uncovers artworks
which
may have never been exhibited in the past,
demonstrating
the hidden treasure that can be
found
in a domestic context and discovers relations
between
artists that were shaped in the context of
an
intersection of different routes.
Adopting
the installation model of the 90’s relational
aesthetics,
the basement of Project Space is being
recast
into a referential simulation of the actual
domestic
environment where the project has been
conceived,
formed and developed until the moment
of
its final execution and transformation into a group
exhibition.
In
this room, the curator creates her own collection
of
collections. Her bedroom functions as a spatial
metaphor
of a digital mood-board, referring to the
postmodern
construction of “pastness” in contemporary
youth
microblogs (tumblr, etc). It creates an
aesthetic
practice based on self-indulgent nostalgia.
The
space takes the form of a “third place”, a location
between
a white cube and a domestic environment
that
oscillates between the domestic and
public
space. Here, the experience of the work is
achieved
through participation in this stimulated
representation
that extends out of the walls of the
show
and enters the project’s website, a platform ultimately
integrated
into the curator’s own referential
universe,
blurring the lines between historical and
fictional
narratives.
In
Chez Eux: Unseen Collections, the researcher becomes
the
architect, inhabitant, curator and narrator
of
the artists’ personal stories
Cur.by
Stamatia Dimitrakopoulos
Participating
artists:
Loukia
Alavanou, Benjamin Verhoeven/Andreas Angelidakis, Dakis Joannou/
Antonakis, James McLardy/Dimitrios Antonitsis, Meret
Oppenheim/Manolis Daskalakis Lemos, Florian Goldmann/Panos
Haralabous, George Lappas/Dionisis Kavallieratos Elise Provencher and
Fillipos Kavakas/ Konstantin Kakanias,Νan Goldin/Katerina Kana,Nino
Stelzl/Stelios Karamanolis and Toula Ploumi, Rhinoceros (Audio
drama)/ Miltos Manetas,Petra Cortright/Theo Michael, Francis
Alÿs/Maria Papadimitriou, Martin Kippenberger/Katerina Würthle and
Michel Würthle/Panos Papadopoulos,Elisabeth Penkel/Rena
Papaspyrou,Bia Davou/Angelo Plessas, Zoë Paul and Santiago
Taccetti/Mima Razelou,Takis/Kostas Sahpazis, Zoe Giabouldaki, Panos
Tsagaris, Rachel Garrard/ Alexandros Tzannis, Markus Selg/Jannis
Varelas, Ben Wolf Noam/ Kostas Varotsos,Michelangelo Pistoletto/
Kostis Velonis, Johannes Schweiger/Poka Yio,Yorgos Vakirtzis
09.06.16
– 25.06.16
“CHEZ
EUX: Unseen Collections”
Circuits
and Currents
