Christiana Soulou
dal 8/10/2007 al 23/11/2007
Segnalato da
8/10/2007
Christiana Soulou
Sadie Coles HQ (old location), London
Artist's first solo show at Sadie Coles HQ comprises a recent series of her deceptively delicate drawings. The title of the show, inspired by an Emily Dickinson Poem, is evocative of both Soulou's strong literarygrounding as well as her fascination with the enigma of death.
This dust was gentlemen and ladies
Christiana Soulou’s first solo show at Sadie Coles HQ
comprises a recent series of her deceptively delicate
drawings. While drawing has recently experienced a
renewed importance in the art world as a primary
rather than a secondary medium, for Soulou it has
always been an exquisite end in itself.
The title of the show, inspired by an Emily Dickinson
Poem, is evocative of both Soulou’s strong literary
grounding as well as her fascination with the enigma of
death.
Born of her hazy obsessions, for the most part focusing on the human body,
Soulou’s activity is investigative, diagrammatic, at times bordering on the
anatomical. Indeed, in her writings Soulou reflects on the studies of curvilinear
perspective by the sixteenth-century Clouet brothers and twentieth century
mathematician Gödel Kurt’s incompleteness theorem. Yet with bones made visible,
faces disappearing, and limbs silently absent, her images have an intoxicating
effect that regularly leads the viewer to lay personal claim to the visions they
perceive. Often described as ghostly but with an assuredness of line firmly
grounded in the present, Soulou’s drawings possess a curious permanence.
Haunting and insistent, the intensity of Soulou’s drawings is formidable.
Christiana Soulou was born in Athens in 1961. She studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Beaux Arts, Paris. She has staged two solo shows in Athens (2003, 2006, Galerie 3) and one in
Paris (2004, Galeries Samy Kinge). She has participated in group exhibitions including Petite
impertinence, Cachan, France (1996), and Panic Room: Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection,
DESTE, Athens (2005), Dream & Trauma: Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Vienna
(2007). She also took part in Of Mice and Men, the 4th Berlin Bienniale. A new book of the artist’s
writings is being published by DESTE, to complement the foundation’s current exhibition Fracture:
Figure (2007). She lives and works in Athens.
Opening 09 October 6-8pm
Sadie Coles HQ
35 Heddon Street, London W1
Free Admission