Damage to the state. Damage to the body. Damage to the soul. To hurt. To be hurt. As Demosthenes says: “Errors, accumulated bit by bit, turn into all encompassing harm for the city.” Something similar happens in the state of the human body and human soul, where the process of “hurting” and “being hurt” begins with the literary murder of exceptions, pleasure, truth, which is perceived by the subject as self care and utter catharsis. Yet it is those subtle exceptions that protect one’s self, just like cats clean a basement of mice. Thus, the cellar inside one’s self are now flooded with choices, until one slowly loses himself amid the “all encompassing harm”.
Text by author Spyros Karydakis for the exhibition.
In METAPolis, at the heart of the historic commercial center of town, which is now rediscovering itself and is becoming a meeting point of culture, we present the VLAVES exhibition. 9 contemporary artists explore “harm” of our time with works made especially for the exhibition, each with his personal touch. This is a group project of the participants and includes a wide range of artistic media.
Participants: Theodore Veronikis (Photography), Myrto Vounatsou Stelios & Dex (Video), Vangelis Geralexis (Photography), Yiannis Yiannakopoulos (Photography/ Instagram), Kostas Kourtidis (Photography), Fotini Poulia (Sketch), Chrysanthos Sotiropoulos (Painting) , Efi Fouriki (Video).
The artists of the exhibition support the “Doctors of the World”
Parallel events
Two more projects accompany the exhibition:
Thursday, May 17, 2012, 20.00-21.30 “The personal is political”
Some stimuli and a conversation with Alexandra Kingdom, (Ph.D., psychotherapist)
Saturday, May 19, 2012, 20.30-22.00 “PERICHVLAVIS” Drama Therapy Performance
With Vounatsou Yasmin (Drama) and Kastamonitos flowers (Drama / Game Therapy), percussion instruments: Kourtparasidou Margarita (musician).
METAPolis
A Photographic Group, founded in 2009 by Yiannis Yiannakopoulos and Kostas Kourtidis, that seeks its own transformation of the city, METApolis. A game between the meanings of the word meta (after and abstraction from another concept) and the evolution of the city and its interpretation in the concentration of component parts, namely within the city itself, within all of us. More than the word metropolis.
Starting with photography, the new METAPolis on Aeolus aspires to be a meeting point for artists and audiences. www.metapolis.gr
VLΛVES
Opening: Thursday, May 10, 20:00
Duration: 10 – May 31, 2012
Opening hours: Daily 17.00 – 22.00, Saturday & Sunday 12.00-21.00
METAPolis: 48-50 Aeolus & Kolokotronis, Mezzanine
Monastiraki Metro
Detailed information on the exhibition (texts, biographies and photographs of participants in high resolution) at http://www.metapolis.gr/vlaves/
Information info@metapolis.gr Tel 210.32.53.550
