Curate Award presents "Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents", conceived by Belgian curator Evelyn Simons (1989) and supported by project coordinator Ilektra Kalaitzaki. It explores the movement of people, the circulation of capital, and how these endless flows of motion are organized, systematized, controlled and contested.
The exhibition will feature 11 site-specific solo presentations by contemporary artists: Larry Achiampong, Meriç Algün, James Bridle, Hera Büyüktaşçiyan, Jeremy Hutchison, KERNEL, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Persefoni Myrtsou & Eva Giannakopoulou, Lara Ögel, Maria Papadimitriou and Lloyd Corporation.
The wide range of artistic contributions deployed across the city of Athens (on advertising panels, in a café, empty shops and a garage, etc.) investigate shared thematic topics: advertising and marketing as tools used to cover up the exploitation of globalized production processes; labor ethics; the notion of home as a personal or collective construct; the structural limitations of human movement and thought; imposed or self-governed cultural identity; and practices dealing with community-building.
17 JUNE TO 22 JULY 2017
