Karolina Krasouli
How to Remember (Plans), 2022
Oil, gesso, dust pigment, graphite and thread on canvas, 145 × 107 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Kalfayan Galleries, Athens – Thessaloniki
Karolina Krasouli investigates variations of fairy tales in different places and times, and the potential internal connections between those narratives. The starting point for How to Remember (Plans) (2022) is the folk tale “The Βridge of Arta”, as it is presented – in two different but similar versions – in Giorgos Ioannou’s Paraloges (1970) and Marguerite Yourcenar’s text “The Milk of Death”, published in 1963 in the short story collection Oriental Tales. In an approach to the concept and technique of the frame narrative, Krasouli presents a work of painting with indirect visual references to the short story. Attempting to meta-narrate and assemble/interweave the two stories, Krasouli has made a painting composition consisting of canvases hand-sewn together, painted in gesso and oil in soft pastel colours, ‘woven’ with other elements painted on paper, and ‘sewn together’ with words or traces of writing. Her work alludes to books, folders, and folded pages.
Biography
Karolina Krasouli is a visual artist living and working in Athens. In her artistic process, painting, text, and writing, as well as assembling, are the vocabulary that collectively shapes and structures her language. Following her studies in Clinical Psychology in Greece and France, she obtained a Master’s in Fine Arts at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 2014. In 2015, she co-founded Alfabeto, a group for theoretical and practical research on the concept of transmission in art, through talks and exhibitions at the French Academy in Rome. That same year, she received a two-year fellowship for a residency at the Cité des arts in Paris. In 2019, she received the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship from ARTWORKS. In 2022, she was artist-in-residence at the Delfina Foundation in London. She has participated in various exhibitions in Greece and internationally.
ALL WORKS
- Phantom Investigations (Giannis Delagrammatikas, Ino Varvariti). Each Relation Belongs to Other Relations
- Chryssa. From the Newspaper Book
- Chryssa. From the Newspaper Book
- Nausica Pastra. Analogiques
- Nausica Pastra. Synectron–Square–Circle
- Bia Davou. Pillars and Clouds, Hypothetical Intervention in the Pillars of Olympic Zeus
- Bia Davou. Serial Structures 2 – Odyssey
- Christina Mitrentse. European Union – Bookscape XIV
- Christina Mitrentse. Home is the Net – Bookscape VI
- Karolina Krasouli. Pattern (Νοs. 1–3, 5–9, 11–14)
- Karolina Krasouli. How to Remember (Plans)
- Chrysanthi Koumianaki. When the Performance Ends
- Maria Varela. Rugs of Life
