Tutti Frutti

 

 

Artist: Stephanie Mann

Place: Snehta Residency – Athens in Reverse

Tutti Frutti was an exhibition which had been developed whilst on residency with Snehta in Kypseli. 

Experiencing Athens as a massive bowl of fruit, Mann attempted to focus on the satsuma seeds as opposed to the entirety of the display, exploring the details of direct encounters and local happenings. 

Viewing conversations, situations and objects with the same regards to physical materials, Mann was interested in the inherent qualities within such things and aimed to recontextualise and rearranged their properties with a light-hearted and playful aesthetic. 

Slipping between video, sculpture and performance, and often involving Mann herself, the works yield a diaristic enthusiasm for the ever prevailing quirks of daily life, present despite economic difficulties. 

Featuring the slippy floors of The Byzantine Museum, instigating happenings amongst Kipseli's community and involving intriguing neighbourhood aesthetics, the works in 'Tutti Frutti' aimed to provide a celebratory broth of both historical and current local ingredients. 

Snehta Residency is based in an urban apartment in Kypseli where the selected artists live, create and exhibit their work. The residency in collaboration with the artists, deduces and cultivates experimental and daring practices through specific artistic proposals. 

At the same time the artists are asked to sharpen their sense of Athens’s current situation in order to create works that actively incorporate an internal reading of the city, a tool they use throughout their creative Athenian practice. 

May's Exhibitions II

 

Short-lived Settlements by Becky Campbell 

 

Snehta Residency is the only residency in Athens that gives the opportunity to international artists to visit the Greek capital and stay in a typical Athenian apartment. The house is situated in Kypseli, a post-bourgeois area that bears the marks of the current changes of the Athenian landscape.

As is implied by its name, (Athens spelled backwards), Snehta seeks to initiate new readings and cultural responses to the Greek capital, whilst enriching and re-directing the practices of the residency’s participating artists.

The Residency Snehta (was founded in December, 2011 by Augustus Veinoglou) started this April 2012 with the participation of the Scottish artist Becky Campbell. After a months stay in the City, Campbell opened the doors of the Snehta apartment on the 24th of May and shared her personal readings with the audience.

The exhibition titled Short-lived Settlements presented works that fuse structures, colours and textures, while various histories and the present overlap. The muted palette of the city pulsed through with hints of vibrancy; Athens is deconstructed and reinvented through Campbell's works, which project dense visual qualities and a tactile complexity. The plasticity of the urban experience is reversely explored and thought about with a focus on its multiple inward layers. 

 

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Cobalt + Porcelain by Olga Alexopoulou 

 

Kourd gallery presents Olga Alexopoulou's Exhibition with the title: Cobalt + Porcelain

 

 Olga's official website is here.

 

and information about the exhibition and the Kourd Gallery here.

 

The exhibition will be open until the 23rd of June 2012