{"id":86836,"date":"2023-10-05T13:21:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T13:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=86836"},"modified":"2023-10-26T13:51:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:51:43","slug":"symbiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/exhibitions-en\/symbiotics","title":{"rendered":"SYMBIOTICS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Symbiotics<\/em>, by the miss dialectic curatorial team, was chosen through an open call process by EM\u03a3\u03a4 | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, for the submission of proposals for a group exhibition. A contemporary narrative on coexistence, which focuses on the process of communication through female art practices, defines the conceptual core of the project, which comprises a group exhibition, framed by a broad programme of public events. The exhibition presents works by four contemporary Greek visual artists \u2013 Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Karolina Krasouli, Christina Mitrentse, and Maria Varela \u2013 as well as by the artist group Phantom Investigations (Giannis Delagrammatikas and Ino Varvariti). Compositions by Chryssa, Bia Davou, and Nausica Pastra, from the EM\u03a3T collection, complete the exhibition, whose starting point, in fact, according to the curatorial team, is the series of drawings Serial Structures 2 <\/em>\u2013 Odyssey<\/em> by Bia Davou. The Symbiotic Discourses<\/em> of the public programme include workshops and educational events (by Karolina Krasouli, Christina Mitrentse, and Maria Varela), performances (by Chrysanthi Koumianaki), and a performative lecture (by Phantom Investigations).<\/p>\n

The use of the grid as a common structural component of the works in the exhibition functions in a unifying manner, defining a literal, or even an imaginary, space within which the concepts of equilibrium, seriality, repetition, succession and \u2013 potentially \u2013 liberation and expansion into the real and the public space, are dynamically imposed. The grid, in addition, is connected to weaving \u2013 an activity that has been traditionally linked to the place and role of women. Weaving is here elevated as a fine art practice, turning the process of handicraft into a tool of empowerment of the female in contemporary art and connecting it to different versions of the visual, textual, scientific, and technological language. This medium is common in the practice of the visual artists taking part in the exhibition, heightening the symbiotic and conceptual system of their coexistence. At the same time, they share features such as the reuse of motifs and symbols (also) from their earlier works, which are inherent in and converse with their subsequent proposals.<\/p>\n

Emphasising the process of creation through fragmentary images and codes, using a broad range of art mediums, the works presented in the Symbiotics<\/em> exhibition create space and rhythm, become poetic gestures and contemplations on contemporary reality and the history of art itself, and weave their own narrative on the female in art, \u201cin a room of one\u2019s own\u201d (Virginia Woolf).<\/p>\n

At the opening of the exhibition, three performances by Chrysanthi Koumianaki are presented from 20:00 in the exhibition space as well as in other\u00a0<\/span>common<\/span>\u00a0areas of the Museum.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Symbiotics, by the miss dialectic curatorial team, was chosen through an open call process by EM\u03a3\u03a4 | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, for the submission of proposals for a group exhibition. A contemporary narrative on coexistence, which focuses on the process of communication through female art practices, defines the conceptual core of the project, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":86825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86836"}],"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=86836"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87270,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86836\/revisions\/87270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}