That That is Not, 2014
Solo exhibition at the artist’s studio, curated by Maria Yiayiannou and Georgia Voudouri
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Exhibition pictures
Individual works
Algedon- Collages, 2012-14
Each piece combines two photographs from my archive. They are cut by hand using cutters and pasted on balsa wood, becoming three dimensional objects. Presented as an installation of wooden boxes, dimensions variable. Size of each piece 10x15x0.3cm
Dicotyl-hedon, 2013
Soft pastel on paper, 80x110 cm
Unobtainable little a,b,c,d
Painting installation. 4 paintings, oil on canvas, wood frame.
Deep On, 2014
Tritpych. 3 paintings, Oil on canvas. 1x1.5m each
Unrelenting interval, 2014
installation of 12 paintings, oil on canvas, Size 18x24 each.
Double bind Diptych, 2014
Two paintings, oil on canvas, 30x70 each
Transmutation 2014
Lightweight concrete, plaster. Dimensions of installation variable
With Without, 2010-14
Series of drawings, charcoal and pastel on paper. 87,5x125 each
That That is Not (Auto Pou den Einai)
Artist’s book. 12 drawings, charcoal and soft pastel on paper. 16x24 each.
Doppleganger, 2014
Self drying clay
That That Is Not
Katerina Papazissi’s artistic proposal is dedicated to the body and the city. Painting, drawing and photocollage being her main artistic media, she introduces us to a fragmented corporeal realm, which spans the entire range of canvas sizes. While studying the points of contact, or separation, between two bodies, the artist discovers the importance of the void, a non-place where desire and communication hold the reins.
Over and among the shells that surround us as second skin, Papazissi finds a series of lines/voids/intervals out of which the inside of a building emerges, from which an active dialogue between the lifeless building and the life which it contains takes place. The artist defines the building materials of the relationships that construct us and therefore, tear us down, uniting the urban landscape with ‘The Skin it lives in’. Overturning Lucio Fontana’s Spazialismus - since, here, what looks like a slot is actually what unites, she attempts to reveal the depth of desire, as a counterpoint to the ‘endless surface’ that reality, according to the artist, has become.
That That Is Not is precisely what is, the space that breathes between us, offering itself to be filled. As. in this case, the space where the conditions of communication are created is the same place where the works emerge: the artist’s studio, an ideal site for the viewer to meet the artist through art.
Georgia Voudouri and Maria Yiayiannou.