{"id":86898,"date":"2023-10-05T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=86898"},"modified":"2023-10-12T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T14:30:15","slug":"christina-mitrentse-home-is-the-net-bookscape-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/works-from-the-exhibitions\/symbiotics-en\/christina-mitrentse-home-is-the-net-bookscape-vi","title":{"rendered":"Christina Mitrentse. Home is the Net \u2013 Bookscape VI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christina Mitrentse
\nHome is the Net \u2013 Bookscape VI<\/em>, 2018
\nVintage hardbacks, ribbons, vinyl letters, wood, 100 \u00d7 60 cm
\nCourtesy of the artist and CITRONNE Gallery<\/p>\n

In the Bookscapes<\/i> series, and especially in works such as Home is the Net \u2013 Bookscape VI <\/i>(2018) and European Union \u2013 Bookscape XIV <\/i>(2023), Christina Mitrentse<\/b> transforms hard book covers into colourful flat canvases that explore the textual landscapes of the post-Internet era. The most popular abbreviations of the hashtags of Instagram and Facebook, i.e., the pop-up algorithms used to facilitate communication between users, are a daily global language. In this series, they serve as a new form of discourse, by way of archiving the language of the Internet to contemplate the nature of digital abundance. Mitrentse\u2019s compositions of overlapping book covers are a comment on computational forms, memory, the network, code, variables, symbolic systems, language, and \u2013 most of all \u2013 contemporary communication.<\/p>\n

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Biography<\/p>\n

Christina Mitrentse is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and independent curator. She lived and worked in London for two decades. In recent years, she has been based in Athens. Her work combines different mediums, techniques \u2013 design, silk printing, biblio-sculpture, collage, installations \u2013 and processes, such as the in-progress collaborative projects Add To My Library<\/i> (#ATML), which proposes a process of deinstitutionalising the book, and Bibliographic Data Flow<\/i> (#BDF), which collects book titles to enrich a #Meta-Library<\/i>. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums, and public spaces, such as the Tate Modern, The Royal Academy, ICA London, etc., and profiled in publications. Mitrentse\u2019s artworks can be found in major private and public collections such as the WWW Foundation, MOCA London, Senate House, Book Arts UWE, LCC (UAL), Goldsmiths University Women\u2019s Library, Book Art Centre NY, the National Library in Baghdad, the Jewish Museum of Greece, Fine Art Society London, Greenwich Council, Sill Library Bath, Mol\u2019s Collection, Tate Archive, Collectors\u2019 Society, Griechische Kulturstiftung, M. Altenman, Onassis Foundation, Alpha Bank, MOMus, Benaki Museum, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation \u2013 \u039c\u0399\u0395\u03a4, El. Venizelos (Athens) Airport.<\/p>\n

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