18/11/2014
Aikaterini Gegisian
Tintype, London
Is This Why I Cannot Tell Lies? Moving between lovemaking and fantasy, the works in the exhibition both deconstruct and articulate female sexuality and question how women are positioned in the space of the future.
We are delighted to present Aikaterini Gegisian’s Is This Why I Cannot Tell Lies?
Aikaterini Gegisian’s practice is concerned with challenging received notions of cultural
and sexual identity. The works in Is This Why I Cannot Tell Lies? follow the cinematic logic
of jump cuts, sparking a new current into familiar images and concepts. She references
spaces where ideological and gender conflicts are played out, from outer space to the
female body, from the natural world to dream space.
Gleaned from a heterogeneous body of material including images of gymnasts and space
missions, scientific illustrations of Einstein’s theory of relativity, flower patterns and
autoerotic images from both Soviet and Western photo albums and magazines, Gegisian
has produced a series of photographic ready-mades, alongside a sound installation based
on a dream diary and a text-book on how to become a male escort.
The ironic, the absurd and the surreal, jumble our expectations and suggest the possibility
of transformation. Aikaterini Gegisian’s work posits a release, or suspension from
conventional narratives, inviting us to enjoy the radical potential of collage.
Moving between lovemaking and fantasy, the works in the exhibition both deconstruct
and articulate female sexuality and question how women are positioned – literally and
symbolically – in the space of the future.
AIKATERINI GEGISIAN was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied at the University
of Brighton and Chelsea College of Art & Design. In 2014 she completed a PhD at the
University of Westminster, London. Her film My Pink City, filmed in Yerevan, Armenia,
explores gendered divisions in the experience of the city.
She is currently Visiting Research Scholar-Artist at the University of Pennsylvania, US.
Recent shows include Re-Tracing the Land, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, US, 2014;
Visualising the Ottoman City, Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck College, London, 2014; Sensible Action,
Vladikafkaz Fine Arts Museum, North Ossetia, Russia, 2013; Waiting for the Barbarians:
Report to Cavafy, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, 2013; Salon MashUp, Shoreditch Town Hall,
London, 2013; Who Doesn’t Like a Good Old Story?, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, 2012;
Opening: Wednesday 19 2014
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