Life: Repetition and Overturn
Greek and international artists examine repetition and overturn, as forces of everyday life
Every single day, we wake up, eat, work and sleep. We all repeat actions. Repetition is life! From a distance, due to this repetition, life somehow seems the same, linear. However, our repeated actions can never be identical, they differ from each other, even when the differences are subtle or unobserved. Even in the case where the actions are exactly the same, they still take place in different time. Looking closely at life, we realise that there are overturns with a positive or negative effect that break this repetition. These overturns, that often go unnoticed, are forces that greatly affect every human being’s flow of life.
In the philosophical novel "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (1883-1891), Friedrich Nietzsche argued that “in every Instant being begins; around every Here rolls the ball There.” In this sense, nothing stays the same, despite the fact that it may seem consistent and repeated. The content of repetition changes because ‘the same’ in the eternal recurrence of the same comprises differentiation and reproduction. As Nietzsche put it “everything is joined anew.” Similarly, Heraclitus believed that everything is a continuous evolutionary process and the use of the word ‘being’ when we talk about the existence is incorrect because everything is constantly becoming.
For many decades, the old Athenian Warehouse at Chrysospiliotissis Street, has been a meeting point for the art and print world. Life: Repetition and Overturn exhibition invites 8 contemporary artists from Greece and abroad to document the transformation and reuse of the space into a creative workplace open to exchange of ideas, and reminding us that repetition and overturn are life!
Participating artists: Evdokia Kyrkou, Kostas Lales, Solveig Lindgren, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Aliki Palaska, Maeve Rendle, Varvara Spirouli, Anastasis Stratakis
Concept / Curated by: Stratis Pantazis
Coordinated by: Fotini Kapiris
The exhibition "Life: Repetition and Overturn" is presented by the Athens Intersection Cultural Program as a part of the artistic agenda through which the Athens Commercial Triangle Revitalization Program of the Municipality of Athens, implemented with the exclusive donation of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (ISN), invites us to explore the cultural and historical heritage of Athens. The Old Warehouse of 3 Chrysospiliotissis Street which hosts the exhibition, is courtesy of the Chatzikosta Foundation in the context of the Athens Intersection Cultural Program curated by George Georgakopoulos and coordinated by Fotini Kapiris, Performance series curated by Thanos Vovolis.
With the participation of: The ArtWall
Opening: Thursday, November 9, 2017
Duration: November 9 – 23, 2017
Hours: Wednesday - Friday 17:00 - 21:00, Saturday 13:00 - 16:00
Old Paper Warehouse
3 Chrysospiliotissis Str.
105 60 Athens
