BRIGHT FILE (JUNE) / CURATED BY MAYA TOUNTA
ELENA NARBUTAITĖ, RALLOU PANAGIOTOU, YORGOS PRINOS, CHRYSANNE STATHACOS, IRIS TOULIATOU, CHRISTOS TZIVELOS, KOSTIS VELONIS
4 OCTOBER - 27 OCTOBER 2018
Opening Hours: Thurs. - Fri. 16:00 - 20:00 - Sat. 14:00 - 18:00 and by appointment
Haus N Athen, Kairi 6, 2nd floor, Monastiraki Athens
Left: Yorgos Prinos, HANGING ROCK, NEW HAVEN, 2010
Pigment Print
Right: Iris Touliatou, CRASH!, 2018 Flora, vibrators, batteries, electrical cables, wooden pedestal
Opening Hours: Thurs. - Fri. 16:00 - 20:00 - Sat. 14:00 - 18:00 and by appointment
Haus N Athen, Kairi 6, 2nd floor, Monastiraki Athens
Christos Tzivelos, UNTITLED, 1994, Iron, resin, light
Christos Tzivelos, UNTITLED, 1994
Iron, resin, light
Iris Touliatou, UNTITLED (STILL NOT OVER YOU), 2018
Ceiling light fixtures with dying fluorescents, from abandoned offices in Athens, 200 x 56 x 8 cm
Chrysanne Stathacos, BLACK WIDOW WAND, 2018, Silk, pendulum, sage, courtesy of The Breeder Gallery
Right: Iris Touliatou, CRASH!, 2018 Flora, vibrators, batteries, electrical cables, wooden pedestal
Elena Narbutaitė, BILLY, 2018
Lume 20R luminaire produced by Ledigma
Iris Touliatou, EMOTIONAL INFINITY (THE SOUND OF HIM COMING BACK AMPLIFIED AND LOOPED), 2016
Electric fan, copies of keys, metal wires, ribbons, Element- system shelf, glass. 100 x 40 x 30 cm
Kostis Velonis, CRACKING LOVE, 2018
Ceramic, concrete, wood, steel, marble, plaster, plastic, 30 X 22 cm
Iris Touliatou, CRASH!, 2018
Flora, vibrators, batteries, electrical cables, wooden pedestal
Left: Yorgos Prinos, MAN WITH HOOD, NEW YORK, 2014
Pigment Print
Right: Yorgos Prinos, 5.13.2013 - 3.01 P.M, NEW YORK, 2014, Pigment Print
Kostis Velonis, DISPLACEMENT OF THE SELF, 2018
Wood, Concrete, acrylic
72x28x240
Iris Touliatou, SONG, 2007-2009
Attempts to forge Ana Mendieta’s signature, various media, 70 x 100 cm
Right: Christos Tzivelos, LE RAYON X, 1985
The show has a lifetime of several hundred hours.
When heated, it glows with visible light.
'Le Rayon X' and 'Six Heures avant l'été' (1980) by legendary Greek artist Christos Tzivelos
(1949-1995) were the starting point for this show that centres on light but isn't about light. Felt as an effigy for June – not the proverbial month but those 30 days in 2018 – the show brings together works by Elena Narbutaitė, Rallou Panagiotou, Yorgos Prinos, Chrysanne Stathacos, Iris Touliatou, Christos Tzivelos and Kostis Velonis to make pronouncements on a raw, fertile state, which hasn't been assigned a name. In a sense, the show is about looking for wild love (Amour Fou), the alchemical Rebus (the androgynous being that fuelled Jung's individuation fantasies) or some other feeling of wholeness. It is also about processes that suspend this longing – stretch it out, preserve it,
cast it, antagonise it, take its place even, until it is exhausted. Works are plugged in, hung, projected. Slowly they accumulate heat from the sun or from within the wall. Alchemically, we could say they begin as stars (those made of herbs) and planets (iron, copper, silver, gold) which young are black, orbiting in the dark. As they slowly grow and grow warmer, they turn yellow, then white, then finally become fully transmuted into a red, at which point they fluoresce.
When heated, it glows with visible light.
'Le Rayon X' and 'Six Heures avant l'été' (1980) by legendary Greek artist Christos Tzivelos
(1949-1995) were the starting point for this show that centres on light but isn't about light. Felt as an effigy for June – not the proverbial month but those 30 days in 2018 – the show brings together works by Elena Narbutaitė, Rallou Panagiotou, Yorgos Prinos, Chrysanne Stathacos, Iris Touliatou, Christos Tzivelos and Kostis Velonis to make pronouncements on a raw, fertile state, which hasn't been assigned a name. In a sense, the show is about looking for wild love (Amour Fou), the alchemical Rebus (the androgynous being that fuelled Jung's individuation fantasies) or some other feeling of wholeness. It is also about processes that suspend this longing – stretch it out, preserve it,
cast it, antagonise it, take its place even, until it is exhausted. Works are plugged in, hung, projected. Slowly they accumulate heat from the sun or from within the wall. Alchemically, we could say they begin as stars (those made of herbs) and planets (iron, copper, silver, gold) which young are black, orbiting in the dark. As they slowly grow and grow warmer, they turn yellow, then white, then finally become fully transmuted into a red, at which point they fluoresce.