Flora On The Edge Of Windows

Group Show with works by Eva Anerrapsi, Marilia Tripodi, Anastasis Panagis Meletis and Flora Vavoula, Erifili Agelopoulou, Eleni Poulopoulou, Katerina Goti (Viscosity), Nasia Drimousi, Chris Plaitis, Lydia Miligkou, Nasia Sydeta, Antonia Tsakiri, Kostas Filippoglou at U.o.A. grove, organised and curated collectively, 2022.

The multimedia installation ‘Landscapes That We Leave Behind’ is an exploration of the concept of a jump from a fantastic to a real space. As the German-Italian artist and filmmaker Rosa Barba questions in her book ‘On The Anarchic Organization of Cinematic Spaces’, 2022 by Hatje Cantz Editions, "How has digitization collapsed the modernist categories of time, space and materiality and created instead an abstraction? Nowhere in this universe is there any forgetting, but it’s all forgettable."

Artwork text by Eva Anerrapsi

The independent and free exchange of images in the digital world, that survive against algorithmic surveillance, reminds us that we are endlessly invited to explore new geographical places within the real world. The 'out of', out of home, out of the room, out of a state of suppression, speaks about escaping a conservative gender-focused narrative concerning the self determination of bodies in public space. The exhibition 'Flora on the Edge of Windows' , is an attempt to search for alternative landscapes for art. The ruthless institutionalisation of artistic expression, leaves no space for scruffy magical soundscapes and breeding ground of chance, where all kinds of wild flora grows. The patchwork of unlimited references to the natural landscape, works as a bowl of artistic expression, and questions the fetters that the non-places (museums, malls, e.t.c) have. The forest as a pathway, as a platform for accessible and free social exchange, confronts the alienation which the urban and digital environments cause, the class barriers that often contemporary art sets, the mapped discrimination of social norms, and the selective ableism that the architectural frame constraints. Chance in nature answers to contemporary pre-processed realities and allows for experimentation and reappropriation.

Exhibition text by Chris & Antonia
Photos by Nefeli Papaioannou

Duration: (Pop-up) 1/7/2022

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