{"id":84104,"date":"2023-01-19T15:35:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T15:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=84104"},"modified":"2023-09-13T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T13:16:00","slug":"eleni-bagaki-something-like-a-poem-a-nude-and-flowers-in-a-vase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/exhibitions-en\/eleni-bagaki-something-like-a-poem-a-nude-and-flowers-in-a-vase","title":{"rendered":"ELENI BAGAKI. SOMETHING LIKE A POEM, A NUDE AND FLOWERS IN A VASE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bagaki\u2019s work in painting, sculpture, drawing, text, sound and videos revolves around a persistent development of auto-fiction. Through the reconstruction of personal experiences or the creation of imagined events, Bagaki explores issues surrounding erotic relationships, sexuality, gender representations, and the precarity that many of the younger generation experience in Greece. Central to her artistic practice is nomadic wandering and flight as an existential condition in the quest for a sense of belonging.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition at EM\u03a3T, the artist\u2019s first major museum presentation, features a series of paintings with compositions of human figures standing alone or interacting in natural landscapes. The starting point for these works is desire: Bagaki\u2019s dreamy paintings are produced, as she emphasizes, by and for desire. Intimations of physical attraction and erotic observation shape the artist\u2019s relationship with the depicted bodies and their environment. The exhibition <em>Something like a poem, a nude, and flowers in a vase <\/em>unfolds as a kind of dreamlike wandering and observation on desire, sexuality, and erotic quest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bagaki\u2019s work in painting, sculpture, drawing, text, sound and videos revolves around a persistent development of auto-fiction. Through the reconstruction of personal experiences or the creation of imagined events, Bagaki explores issues surrounding erotic relationships, sexuality, gender representations, and the precarity that many of the younger generation experience in Greece. Central to her artistic practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84104"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86518,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84104\/revisions\/86518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}