ENTER: Week 4
Maria Papadimitriou, RootlessRoot, Lena Kitsopoulou, Queensbound, Samita Sinha, Xin Liu, Frisly Soberanis, Alina Tenser & Gabo Camnitzer

The Onassis Foundation continues to share and create without contact but with the same love for culture and its people, the artists and their audiences.

From Monday, 18 May, the following artists welcome us. At an altitude of 1.400 meters, Lena Kitsopoulou makes several realizations about human survival in a bleak world system (Lalka). Maria Papadimitriou creates a parody of loneliness and isolation (Alter Ego). RootlessRoot explain the ways in which the soles of the feet can tame everything (Our Soles).

The fourth week of the Onassis USA commissions program has been curated by the Queens Museum. The Museum is located in the epicenter of New York City’s COVID-19 crisis: Queens, NY. All artists involved live and/or work in Queens. The program includes the collaborative project QUEENSBOUND where poets Nadia Q. Ahmad, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Pichchenda Bao, Nana Brew-Hammond, Jared Harel, Abeer Y. Hoque, Joseph O. Legaspi, Robert Ostrom, and KC Trommer create an “exquisite corpse” poem (In the Here and Now). Samita Sinha composes a song-spell about grief (Into the Day). Frisly Soberanis slips between memories and reflections on the current moment in Queens under the 7 train (Forces of a city #1). Alina Tenser and Gabo Camnitzer observe the changing boundaries of space during COVID-19 (A Compass for the House Door). Xin Liu creates a dreamlike game for the era of self-isolation, which you will find very familiar (Sleepwalk).