{"id":89215,"date":"2024-06-04T10:40:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T10:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=89215"},"modified":"2024-12-16T08:56:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T08:56:58","slug":"eva-stefani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/exhibitions-en\/eva-stefani","title":{"rendered":"EVA STEFANI. THE LUMINOUS CAVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exhibitions cycle: WHAT IF WOMEN RULED THE WORLD? Part 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the process of filming, and with camera in hand, acclaimed Greek filmmaker Eva Stefani often visits private and public buildings, hospitals, institutions and offices. During her visits, apart from filming, she collects abandoned archival material \u2013 legal and accounting documents, affidavits, bank transactions, medical test results, and X-rays \u2013 that lay scattered in all these places. Prompted by the need to seek out secrets that are part of her family history, as well as to expose the unseen aspects of Greek history at large, Stefani tends to collect documents that are somehow related to the aftermath of the Nazi Occupation of Greece and the subsequent Civil War, such as lists of employees dismissed because of their political convictions. Likewise, the family storage room, with its piles of written pages buried in the drawer of a decrepit desk, are all invaluable artefacts brought to light by this visual excavation serving to reveal unknown aspects of family history.<\/p>\n<p>Eva Stefani uses this archival material as a structural element in her installation, newly commissioned by EM\u03a3\u03a4, entitled <em>The Luminous Cave<\/em> (2024). With her own personal experience of hospitalisation and her family history as the main source of inspiration, and with reference to Plato\u2019s allegory of the cave, the artist aims to create an experiential space for reflection on the nature of history, the traces of humanity, and how these form part of a both formal and informal history. Probing these microhistories, Stefani calls forth a portrait of a society in flux, coping with the aftermath of trauma and change. Ultimately, the work is a statement against collective amnesia and forgetting at a time dominated by a preoccupation with the present and an unknown future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibitions cycle: WHAT IF WOMEN RULED THE WORLD? Part 4 In the process of filming, and with camera in hand, acclaimed Greek filmmaker Eva Stefani often visits private and public buildings, hospitals, institutions and offices. During her visits, apart from filming, she collects abandoned archival material \u2013 legal and accounting documents, affidavits, bank transactions, medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,35,34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89215"}],"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=89215"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90366,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89215\/revisions\/90366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}