Day Wavers
The moment scatters. Motionless,
I stay and go: I am a pause.
(Between Going and Staying, Octavio Paz)
The group show “Day Wavers” attempts to detect the multiple, circular esoteric loads of ideas, sounds, references and feelings that spring under circumstances of commitment and self-restraint, as well as to envision escaping ways for the day after. The eight participant artists use different processes from a wide creative spectrum (visual arts, music and cinematography) to evaluate their private space by collecting its fragments in order to create non-linear narratives with which they calculate or challenge their strengths.
Issues such as the observation of the natural world’s fluidity and rebirth, the daily repetition and the various aspects of the ephemeral, the apprehension of time and the use of language as an optical tool and shelter, constitute their research points and concerns.
Constantly wavering between images, sounds and words, they focus on the transition point from one situation to the other, that decisive, intermediate moment when everything seems paused while at the same time moving in a dizzying speed: the doubt, the reluctance, the decision.
A world in stillness. The silence, the whispers, the monologues that go back and forth. The last breath before the move forward.
Artists: Babak Ahteshamipour, Angelos kyriou, Antonis Larios, Theodora Malamou, Angelos Merges, Melina Mosland, Hannes Schumacher, Myrto Xanthopoulou.
Curated by: Dora Vasilakou, Theodora Malamou
The exhibition “Day Wavers” curated by Dora Vasilakou and Theodora Malamou, is presented in context to Back to Athens 8 International Arts Festival.
The event considers all public health protection measures, in the context of avoiding the spread of coronavirus (CoV-19).
Back to Athens 8 | 2021 is organized by APART Art Research and Applications, under the Auspices of the City of Athens, with the support of the Austrian Embassy in Athens and the Ministry of Culture of Austria, Zoia, Athens Intersection Cultural Program, CHEAPART and the Offspring Young Artists Program.
Back to Athens 8 International Arts Festival 2021
Profiles of the Future: An inquiry into the limits of the possible
Isaiah Mansion
65 Patission & Ioulianou, Athens, 104 33
"Day Wavers", 3rd floor
Opening day: Thursday, July 1, 16:00 - 22:00
Duration: July 1 – 4, 2021
Visiting hours: Thursday 1.7, Friday 2.7, 16:00 – 22:00, Saturday 3.7, Sunday 4.7, 12:00 – 22:00
