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Upcoming Exhibition
Good Times — Yoshi Kametani
Opening on Saturday, May 3rd, 8pm
“If they ever drop a really big bomb, they told us to hold up your thumb just like this. And if the cloud is smaller than your thumb, you run for the hills.” 1
If it is bigger, you are already dead.
People are expected to keep smiling through situations that shouldn’t be smiled through. Not because it helps, but because there isn’t a clear alternative. In visual language graphics are bright, but messaging is calm. There's always a mascot or a slogan. Imagery of trustworthiness and reliability, such as giving the thumbs up, is becoming a measuring tool for our misery.
There’s always a new version of the same emergency. This repetition of events feels like a hook looping in a song you have already heard a thousand times, but you can’t memorize the lyrics. It feels familiar and cozy, and yet you have no idea what it’s talking about.
“I see trouble on the way” - but don’t worry, everything’s under control.
Yoshi Kametani is an American visual artist working across photography, video, print, and sculpture, currently living and working in Athens. His practice largely reflects on time, destruction, chaos and mortality. At the core of his work is an exploration of entropy, a natural force lending itself to nihilism while embracing the inevitable cycle of rise and decay.
Curated by
Nikoletta Georgakopoulou (@nikolettageorgakopoulou)
and Auðunn Kvaran (@audunnaudunnaudunnaudunnaudunn)
Text by Nikoletta Georgakopoulou
Vasilis Zarifopoulos, born in 1983, is an Athens-based artist. He is a graduate of the University of Aegean (2006) and holds a Master's degree from Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2013), where he studied under Rita McBride. His artistic practice is diverse, encompassing various processes and concepts, often with an autobiographical context. He is particularly interested in communication design and contemporary social issues.
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Francesca Kezich (b. 1995, Italy) is an artist whose practice spans set design, visual art, and performance. Holding a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture and a Bachelor’s Degree in Set Design from the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, her work often explores the liminal spaces between the organic and the inorganic, the human and the alien.
Inspired by the hypnagogic state and the performative nature of matter, Kezich draws from found objects and discarded materials to create intricate and unsettling tableaux. These "embryonic creatures," as she calls them, emerge from a viscous, dreamlike state, challenging the viewer's perception and inviting a reconsideration of the value and agency of the discarded. Her work invites audiences into a shared dream space where the lines between reality and imagination blur, and the inanimate takes on a life of its own.
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Inspired by the hypnagogic state and the performative nature of matter, Kezich draws from found objects and discarded materials to create intricate and unsettling tableaux. These "embryonic creatures," as she calls them, emerge from a viscous, dreamlike state, challenging the viewer's perception and inviting a reconsideration of the value and agency of the discarded. Her work invites audiences into a shared dream space where the lines between reality and imagination blur, and the inanimate takes on a life of its own.
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