{"id":86904,"date":"2023-10-05T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=86904"},"modified":"2023-10-12T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T11:47:33","slug":"chrysanthi-koumianaki-when-the-performance-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/works-from-the-exhibitions\/symbiotics-en\/chrysanthi-koumianaki-when-the-performance-ends","title":{"rendered":"Chrysanthi Koumianaki. When the Performance Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chrysanthi Koumianaki
\nWhen the Performance Ends<\/i>, 2023
\nInstallation, quadrilateral folding screen (205 \u00d7 324 cm), costumes of various dimensions, sound installation, 8’48” loop
\n\u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4 new production
\nCourtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

Chrysanthi Koumianaki <\/b>orchestrates a multilateral work entitled When the Performance Ends<\/i> (2023). The artist weaves her own modular fictional story, featuring garments that herself has designed for performative works she has presented in the past. Her practice investigates the idea of translation, creating symbolic systems, coding, alphabets, and scores that focus on non-verbal communication. The work is perceived as an act of writing \u2013 or an assembly of \u2013 conversions and transformations. It is treated as a remake of a previous installation with the same title, comprised of clothing samples from selected exhibitions and performances \u2013 RSVP<\/i>, The Stage is Empty<\/i>, and Enchanted Life<\/i> \u2013 and framed by an audio piece from the exhibition they keep chewing walls<\/i>. The work has been further developed; the installation features a new spatial element, i.e., a screen with patterns, shapes, and symbols designed by the artist, while also three performance pieces are presented simultaneously at the exhibition\u2019s opening. Three performers wearing the garments that now constitute a part of the work move around \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4 and interact with the visitors and the space itself.<\/p>\n

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Biography<\/p>\n

Chrysanthi Koumianaki is a visual artist, born in Heraklion, living and working in Athens. Her practice explores the idea of translation, creating symbolic systems, cyphers, alphabets, and scores that focus on non-verbal communication. Her works propose dialogues that arise between the different parts of an installation during their production and in interaction with the viewer. She has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions in foundations, museums, and galleries, such as Netwerk Aalst, Fondation Hippocr\u00e8ne, Museum of Cycladic Art, Kadist, Danske Grafikeres Hus, PHENOMENON, Benaki Museum, NEMA\u2013Benaki Museum, State of Concept, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Athens Biennale, and \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4, as well as in exhibitions by organisations and museums such as NEON, Fondazione Prada, DESTE Foundation, and New Museum New York. Koumianaki has also staged exhibitions or events in public spaces, like the Hill and Theatre of Kolonos, the Venetian Walls of Heraklion, a basketball court in Kato Patissia, etc. She has participated in art programmes such as Studiotopia, Onassis AiR, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS. Since 2012, along with Kosmas Nikolaou and Paky Vlassopoulou, she has been a founding member of the artist-run space 3 137 in Athens.<\/p>\n

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