locus athens commissioned Christoforos Marinos to curate a series of conversations with artists based in Greece at their new space TAVROS. TAVROS is a non-profit space, founded by locus athens in October 2019, which aims to respond to the social and political circumstances around us through dialogue, listening and learning.
Crossings was a series of conversations curated and coordinated by art historian Christoforos Marinos held once every month (from February till June 2020) with artists based in Greece from different generations. The invited artists had the chance to exchange views and share references and obsessions. In turn, the audience had the opportunity to delve with greater depth into what drives artistic practices. Each conversation was based on the media used and the thematics that the respective artists touch upon.
Crossings #3 "There is much to say about soap / Soap has much to say"
Soap by Francis Ponge felt more pertinent than ever in 2020. What does an artist have to say about wax, wood, clay, skin and ashes? What can materiality tell us about its existence? Christoforos Marinos talked with Anastasia Douka, Malvina Panagiotidi, Kostas Roussakis, Maria Tsangari and Paki Vlassopoulou about the multiple possibilities of materiality and the importance of matter in their work. The invited artists were asked, amongst other things to comment on Giuliana Bruno’s assertion that, "materiality is an archive of interrelations and transformations."
DATE AND TIME: Wednesday 17th June 2020, 20.00
LOCATION: TAVROS, Anaxagora 33, 1st floor, Tavros
