Eva Papamargariti

Eva Papamargariti
Soft Touch, 2015/2022
HD video, Color, Sound, 5΄΄
Courtesy of the artist

Soft Touch explores the tactile dimension of our relationship with the digital universes. Touching a smart screen may be a substitute for touching our lover, it may be the start of a digital caress conveyed digitally to its remote recipient, but it may also be an autonomous, emotionally-complete touch to the device itself. Soft Touch cites excerpts from scholarly texts, e.g., Plato or Derrida, and pop culture, e.g., Frank Ocean, to orchestrate around the central figure a choreography of gestures that may equally be caressing screens or bodies.

Eva Papamargariti’s work includes the creation of 3D landscapes, sculptures extending into the physical world, videos and installations. She is particularly interested in relationships of cognitive and affective interaction between the multiple realities that we live in as well as the dynamic intra – connection and intra – action of events that occur in these systems. Papamargariti’s work delves into issues and themes related to simultaneity, the merging and dissolving of our surroundings with the virtual, the mundane and the extraordinary. Furthermore, her practice revolves around processes that are established through our online presence, such as the construction and shifting of our identities, avatars, vernacular language/imagery and worldbuilding.

Biography

Eva Papamargariti is an artist, based between Athens and London. She has exhibited her work in institutions, museums and festivals such as the New Museum (New York), Whitney Museum (New York), Tate Britain (London), MAAT Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (Lisbon), Museum of Moving Image (New York), MoMA PS1 (New York), Athens Biennale (Athens), Thessaloniki Biennale (Thessaloniki), Transmediale Festival (Berlin), Liste Art Fair (Basel) etc. Her work is featured in public and private collections such as MOMuS collection, Dakis Joannou Collection (Deste Foundation), Onassis Foundation, PCAI Collection, and more.

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