Extend & Pretend / curated by Komplot
Jonathan Boutefeu (BE), Laurie Charles (BE), Gaillard & Claude (FR), Filip Gilissen (BE), Guillaume Ginet (FR), Seyran Kirmizitoprak (BE), Cleo Totti (BE), Benny Van Den Meulengracht-Vranckx (BE), Elise Van Mourik (NL)
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Chalkidonos 56-58, 115 27, Ampelokipoi, Athens
Opening hours: Every Thursday and Friday 17:00 - 21:00 & Saturday and Sunday 14:00 - 21:00
Guillaume Ginet
Gaillard & Claude
Laurie Charles
CleoTotti
Seyran Kirmizitoprak
Guillaume Ginet
Jonathan Boutefeu
Benny Van Den Meulengracht
Benny Van Den Meulengracht
Filip Gilissen
'Extend and pretend'
is the patronising, glib slogan applied by English speakers to Greece's
financial policy of accepting heavy loans from other EU countries.
A policy which
culminated in the harsh austerity measures imposed on the country from 2009
till today.
Rather than cutting
away, we want to seek strong links between Brussels, the heart of the European
Union, and Athens, the city most synonymous with its instability. We want a way
of working dictated by real need – not by the imaginary and impossible demands
of the market. We want the possibility of forging links from real things in
real space – a conversation of objects in a room and a conversation between
space and artists in Brussels and Athens.
Extend and Pretend is
a reply to 'Young, Handsome And Unemployed' curated by Michelangelo Corsaro in
Komplot Brussels in April 2016 with Theodoris Giannakis & Petros Moris,
Katerina Kana, Lito Kattou, Natasha Papadopoulou, Zoë Paul, Angelo Plessas,
Socratis Socratous and Pegi Zali.
Komplot is a curatorial collective based in Brussels since 2002.