That That is Not, 2014
Solo exhibition in the artist’s studio, curated by Maria Yiayiannou and Georgia Voudouri.
This body of work dealt with desire as an opening, a wound, a space in-between, concentrating on the body and its relationship to its habitat, the city. Paintings, drawings, sculptures and collages deal with the spaces that separate, or unite, the voids that, rather than being empty, are points of contact, full of energy and meaning.
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That That Is Not
Katerina Papazissi’s artistic proposal is dedicated to the body and the city. Painting, drawing and photocollage being her main artistic media, she introduces us to a fragmented corporeal realm, which spans the entire range of canvas sizes. While studying the points of contact, or separation, between two bodies, the artist discovers the importance of the void, a non-place where desire and communication hold the reins.
Over and among the shells that surround us as second skin, Papazissi finds a series of lines/voids/intervals out of which the inside of a building emerges, from which an active dialogue between the lifeless building and the life which it contains takes place. The artist defines the building materials of the relationships that construct us and therefore, tear us down, uniting the urban landscape with ‘The Skin it lives in’. Overturning Lucio Fontana’s Spazialismus - since, here, what looks like a slot is actually what unites, she attempts to reveal the depth of desire, as a counterpoint to the ‘endless surface’ that reality, according to the artist, has become.
That That Is Not is precisely what is, the space that breathes between us, offering itself to be filled. As. in this case, the space where the conditions of communication are created is the same place where the works emerge: the artist’s studio, an ideal site for the viewer to meet the artist through art.
Georgia Voudouri and Maria Yiayiannou.