Hypercomf / Soft Spot
Ioannis Koliopoulos, Paola Palavidi
15 February - 31 March 2018
Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center
48 Armatolon & Klefton Street
11471 Athens, Greece
Ioannis Koliopoulos, Paola Palavidi
15 February - 31 March 2018
Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center
48 Armatolon & Klefton Street
11471 Athens, Greece
Hypercomf
is a newly funded, fictitious company profile, producing
installations of hybrid soft and discomforting art , functional
objects and poetry.
The
company examines the notions of the useful and the useless, comfort
and discomfort, personal and collective experience, material and
emotional consumption.
Soft
Spot is Hypercomfs first pop-up store designed to be experienced as
an art installation and a store specializing in oversized Wall to
Wall Quilts, Purposeful totes, Cotton poems with Wool attachments,
Soft lecture hats and Video Shoes.
The
raw material used is predominately second hand fabrics and blankets,
clothes, hats e.t.c. these are sourced through donations , thrift
purchases and looking through chests and closets of Greek homes. The
material is chosen for its rarity or banality, its ability to express
a personal story, a time period or culture and for its comforting or
discomforting qualities. Many of the items express individual
character, others collective culture and collective trends, all
define a historic cultural time line.
The
final objects are the matérialisation and
uniting of fragmented collective experiences and memories. Poetry
is similarly stitched and sewn using second hand words and phrases.
Then it is woven using an industrial loom and wrapped around ones
neck to keep them warm. The
video shoes come in any size.
The
company finds itself in a landscape of overabundance and hyperbole of
material, skills, levels of being, technological conveniences and
comforts.
Hypercomf
is a new utopian business and production model, one more imagined
reality, investigating the economy of the individual, using humor,
observation and the possibilities of constant
cultural re-invention.
Hypercomf
invites you to float comfortably in the hyperbole of word and
material.
You
found our Soft Spot!