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Everything Ι touch turns into me
Archaeology of Gesture
When ancient objects exit their flows, they are transformed, becoming visible, familiar, and autonomous. When we interact with them, we re-think gazes, gestures and behaviours and create new functions. In an ever-ending archipelago of protocols of handling, working, and owning artefacts, this exhibition proposes a radical non-use. Exploring the diagonal commonhold of gestures and artefacts as objects of necropolitical desire, the exhibition functions as a parasitic council that suggests alternative gestures, new forms of movements, stares and thoughts etched on gestures of handle, care, love and sharing.
A rhizome of non-proprietary uses, it summarizes a long research on how gesture, language and value intersect, influenced by Latour’s Berlin Key. Reframing the value of gesture and its embodiment, it urges us to grant no one narrative or discursive practice a preferential role, by reinforcing the idea of incessant metamorphosis by the means of gesture. It highlights an inverted gesture that portrays ecstasy instead of reverence. This creates and augments a series of singular environments and personal perspectives for engaging antiquity as gestural, liquid, performative and heterogeneous, rather than fixed and monocultural.
April 12 - May 4, 2024
Curated by Evagoria Dapola
Space 52, Athens
