Since when dont they like pink
Narratives on everyday behaviours and memories of an abandoned space
Since when don't they like pink? Did they leave because of it? What stood here before?
Tacking the abandoned space as a starting point, we create narratives based on everyday actions, behaviours and memories, establishing presence within the space. Currently we only percieve these presences through their absence.
Familiar or not, characteristic marks of the space such as imprints and half-painted walls, reveal information on the past and exigencies of daily life.
In this project, through constructed memories and situations that combine with reminisces, we examine our behavioural structures and they evolve.
Eventually, the room becomes a metaphor, extending the scope of discovery and exploration. Remains of everyday life, reflect relationships that develop and continue to grow within the space and among people. Standards for a "perfect life" collapse before the ravages of time, as they dominated by established opinions and overpowerd by “common sense”.
We investigate repeating behavioral structures and their origins through memories, through individual needs and beliefs. The boundaries we establish between one another, consciously and unconsciously, as a process of self-identification, segmentation, protection or even isolation. Our dependency with the outer environment and system in which we live, the role of the individual as a single unit enclosed within a large social structure - yet, also how ephemeral interventions can influence and reform existing structures.
Therefore, do we perceive these behavioural structures as non-static, as a constantly evolving process interacting with space, through which we seek new approaches. In the future, what will happen to this room? What features will remain as martyrs, commending existing behaviors and situations?
Participating artists: Anestis Ioannou, Angyvir Padilla, Marina Papadaki, Yoel Pytowski, Naama Roth, Vangelis Savvas, Dimitris Theocharis.
Curated by: Notus Studio
"Since when don't they like pink?" exhibition is part of the Back to Athens 6 International Arts Festival. Since 2012, Back to Athens Festival unites the city’s artistic scene in a public showcase of contemporary art and expression that boosts social awareness and restores the residents of Athens to the City Center.
Back to Athens 6 is organized by CHEAPART in collaboration with the Athens Commercial Triangle Revitalization Program of the municipality of Athens, and Athens Intersection cultural program with the support of the Austrian Embassy in Athens, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, My Odyssey/Hellas Group, Praxitelous Bar and Vikos.
Vyssis & Agathonos Str.
105 51 Athens, 2nd floor
Opening: Friday, June 1 2018, 8:30 pm.
Duration: 1 - 10.6.2018
Hours: Saturday - Sunday 12:00 – 4:00 pm.,
Monday - Friday 5:00 – 9:00 pm.
