Two exhibitions
dal 19/1/2005 al 19/2/2005
Segnalato da
19/1/2005
Two exhibitions
Els Hanappe Underground, Athens
Despina Isaia: often relying on traditional crafts, associated with women and the home, the installation is created dispending completely knitted and hybrid forms from the ceiling. Hatice Guleryuz has been making a series films or video works in which memory as image plays a central role.
DESPINA ISAÃA
Untitled, installation, wool, dimensions variable
Despina Isaïa will be showing a new installation, in the line of previous work. Often relying on traditional crafts, associated with women and the home, and the body as a source of materials but also as a standard of measurement, the installation is created dispending completely knitted and hybrid forms from the ceiling. A variety of colours in seemingly random patterns express the time schedule at which the artist worked, each colour representing a separate knitting session. The shapes are irregular but start out from the body, as appendages that can actually be worn. Basic concern of the artist is the idea of time as a major coordinator of life and the rational but disturbing division between ‘wasted’ and ‘useful’ time. The artist will continue knitting throughout the duration of the show.
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HATICE GÃœLERYÃœZ
Four Images, 8mm film & digital video, duration 15 min.
Hatice Güleryüz has been making a series films or video works in which memory as image or as a series of images plays a central role. The artist herself comments: ‘In my work I tend to adopt a very photographic approach to moving images. This allows me to imbue my work with a more intimate atmosphere that is closely related to photography, and to snapshots in particular. Each film could be seen as a photograph extended through time, [...] I tried to capture images that are slow and mesmerising. In my work nothing spectacular takes place in the images themselves, but I try to create the sense that there is something that underlies the image. [...] My films are not a direct representation or documentation of an objective reality but more the product of my subjective way of binding pictures together. There are images that keep returning to my mind without revealing a clear meaning. [...] I have come to see them as after-images.’
This is the third presentation of new work by Despina Isaïa (1974, Athens) at the gallery.
Hatice Güleryüz (1968, Izmir) recently finished the research program at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. She is currently based in Istanbul.
Opening on Thursday 20 January 8-10 p.m.
Els Hanappe Underground
Melanthiou 2 – GR 10554 Athens
Mail: P.O.Box 30161 – 10033 Athens – Greece
Wed/Sat 12-4 p.m., Thu/Fri 12-8 p.m.