Onassis
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Visual arts

The Table of Narrations

Katerina Zacharopoulou

Dates

Prices

Free admission

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Monday-Sunday
Time
12:00
Venue
Foyer 4+

Information

Tickets

The entrance of spectators to the performances and discussion is free and on a first come, first served basis.
The distribution of entrance tickets begins one (1) hour before each event.

Performance

See below the hours and days. To participate, send an email to trapezi_afigiseon@sgt.gr

The Onassis Stegi welcomes Katerina Zacharopoulou to host "The Table of Narrations". A cut-away doll’s house full of miniature furniture and household objects invites the public in to reconstruct their private domestic environments of memory and desire within its walls.

Photo: Thanasis Tamvakidis

The Onassis Stegi welcomes Katerina Zacharopoulou to host "The Table of Narrations".
Katerina Zacharopoulou asks her guests to represent spaces that mean something to them, which move them or relate to key incidents in their lives, from memory. The invitation is extended to anyone who wants to narrate memories centred on homes they lived in or abandoned, lost or dreamed of owning. "The Table of Narrations" is an open stage with rooms, furniture and household objects plus cameras that observe, record and preserve the movements of hands as they move furniture around, along with the accompanying narrations.

Visitors who haven’t applied to narrate their own narrations can follow the action on auxiliary screens set up outside the set/doll’s house.

The installation references the concepts of shelter and security, of the Home and domesticity. The work reveals a world of desires in miniature, using the arranging and rearranging of its rooms to allow people to (re)live emotions and situations that can be hard to prise out of memory, however many changes, departures and returns life may have held in store. A familiar world which at some point turned into a dream or nightmare, a reality or utopia, is rendered tangible and available by being imbued by human experience and imagination enhanced via art.

"The Table of Narrations" installation is presented in parallel with the "Dollhouse of Petronella Oortman show" at the Benaki Museum’s Piraios with the support of the Outset Contemporary Art Fund (Greece). Produced by the Contemporary Art Centre of Thessaloniki / State Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by Syrago Tsiara, the exhibition, which was first shown at the Bey Hamam in Thessaloniki in 2011, is a linked visual narration inspired by the Dollhouse of Petronella Oortman in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum.

Program

Opening: Monday 30 JAN | 21:00

Installation: 30 January – 24 February | Monday-Sunday 12:00-21:00 | Free admission | Foyer 4+

Public discussion (in Greek): Friday 3 February | 20:30 | Free admission | Foyer 5+

The performance will be held the following hours and days:

Monday 30 January | 19:00-21:00
Friday 3 February | 18:00-20:00
Friday 10 February | 17:00-20:00
Friday 17 February | 17:00-20:00
Friday 24 February | 17:00-20:00

At all other times, the installation will be on display along with the narrations recorded to date.

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Katerina Zacharopoulou was born in Athens in 1958. She studied painting in Athens (1982-1987). She attended educational seminars on contemporary art at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1990-1994). In 1997-98 she received grants from the American Embassy in Athens, the Hellenic-American Union and the Chicago Artists International Program, which enabled her to work in Chicago (Chicago Cultural Center), where she had the opportunity to exhibit her art and organize educational programs.

Her artistic work mainly includes constructions, installations, photography and videos. She explores the importance of memory and subjectivity in art, but also the unique relationship between artist and artwork, in relation to social customs and practices, history of art, and the place of women within social reality. One of the characteristic motifs of her art is her ‘Encasements’ series, referring to closed structures, like boxes or houses, with obvious theatrical features and allusions to long-standing stereotypes. Alongside her artistic work, she has worked with national and private mass media on art and culture programs.

Since 2003, she is the presenter of the show “The Era of Images” for ERT, the Greek public broadcaster, where she interviews acclaimed Greek and foreign artists and other art people. She is particularly interested and active in the field of education and contemporary art by regularly organizing workshops in museums and other organizations (Athens National Art Gallery, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the Benaki Museum, NEON organization, The Schwarz Foundation etc.).

Parallel Event

In parallel, a public discussion will be held (only in Greek) on Friday 3 February, on the concept of the home in contemporary art. The discussion, which will feature the artist Katerina Zacharopoulou and the art historian Syrago Tsiara, will be held in the Onassis Stegi’s 5th-floor foyer.

To take part in Katerina Zacharopoulou’s performance, send an email to trapezi_afigiseon@sgt.gr, including your name, age and a short paragraph describing why you would like to participate. Due to limitations on the number of participants, should more people apply to participate than can be accommodated, a selection will be made and notice given to applicants.

Credits

  • Organized by

    Pasqua Vorgia, Konstantina Soulioti

  • We would like to thank

    the “Melissa” network of migrant women in Greece and Shedia magazine for their significant contribution.

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