The Tyvek Project / The exhibition
The Tyvek Project
Can a white, unrippable, resistant material become the starting point for an exhibition that focuses on lived experience, identity, and oppositional forms of expression from the 1970s to the present day?
The artistic director of ATOPOS cvc, Vassilis Zidianakis announces The Tyvek Project, an exhibition that is part of a series of projects that take as their subject holdings from the collection.
The Tyvek Project was devised in collaboration with Mata Dimakopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), and Electra Stampoulou & Vassilis Vlastaras (Athens School of Fine Arts) and started with two items from the ATOPOS collection: a Tyvek jacket like the one that the American poet James Merrill ‘wore’ in “Self Portrait in Tyvek Windbreaker,” an autobiographical poem informed by the poet’s anxiety for his own ailing body, and his discontent vis-à-vis environmental degradation and globalised capitalism; and a white Tyvek suit, hand-stamped by artists of the New York experimental and avant-garde scene of the late 1970s.
Participating artists engage with the mass-produced hyper-resistant material and reflect on urban decay, crisis and austerity, intimacy and queer experiences. This body of work was produced in the context of workshops that conjoined research, theory, and art practice and took place at the Athens School of Fine Arts in the fall of 2021 and 2022.
The exhibition and related events are curated and organised by Elena Koumarianou, Lydia Panagou, and Caterina Stamou.
Atopos cvc
72, Salaminos, 10475, Athens
Opening: 24 November at 18:00 to 22:00
exhibition dutation:
24 November – 21 December 2022
Opening Hours:
Wednesday 16:00- 20:00
Thursday & Friday 12:00 - 18:00
Visit
Free entry, pre-booking at Artsvp
Participating Artists:
Semeli Avramioti, Erifyli Angelopoulou, Eleftheri Amolochiti, Alexandra Apsokardou, Ariadni Delimitrou, Eleni Dermitzaki, Orestis Dimitriou, Sophia Kapourani, Eleni Karakou, Despoina Katsikosta, Katerina Korre, Elena Koumarianou, Alexandra Krokou, Maria Labrinidi, Antonia Mamasoula & Nikolas Raptis, Charis Mavroulias, Triantafylia Douroupi, Kyriaki Osogia, Ellie Papadopoulou, Christina Rossi, Katerina Skordou, Elena Stigka, Alexis Tetsis, Maritina Tselepi, Tatiana Choremi, Alma-Clara Juarez
Academic Organisers:
Stamatina Dimakopoulou, Senior Lecturer at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Elektra Stampoulou Ph.D. candidate at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Vassilis Vlastaras, Professor of Fine Art at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Curating and Public Programme:
Elena Koumarianou is a postgraduate student at the English Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Lydia Panagou is a graduate of the Department of History and Theory of Art of the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Katerina Stamou is a PhD candidate in the English Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
