Abandoned Cartographies and Other Odd Hours
CAN
April 4—May 10, 2025
Athens, Greece
CAN
April 4—May 10, 2025
Athens, Greece
Abandoned Cartographies and Other Odd Hours moves between personal narrative, historical memory and material process, holding them in unstable relation. It unfolds through associative shifts, privileging moments where meaning remains partial or deferred.
The exhibition engages Surrealism not as a stylistic reference but as a mode of thought. It privileges the hidden, the unexpected, the unknowable. Some works engage language through procedures that recall automatic writing, allowing words to emerge spontaneously.
Surfaces are built from construction materials such as bitumen sheets, liquid membranes or steel, subjected to chemical interventions and burning. Sculptural, hollowed forms and compact parts of larger systems sit uneasily between the organic and the mechanical, while metallic drawings on stainless steel propose a cosmos in constant perceptual motion.
Elsewhere, disused printed imagery is cut, assembled and reprocessed through painterly gestures and archival graphic interventions, producing formations that resist coherent reading. Recorded material is time-stretched into a sonic cascade, while moving-image works employ strategies of montage and recirculation to conjure science-fictive non-places that exist only as remnants of film.
Curated by: Dinos Chatzirafailidis
Participating artists: Elli Antoniou, Despina Charitonidi, Socrates Fatouros, James Fuller, Shambhavi Kaul, Konstantinos Lianos, Louis-Philippe Scoufaras, Sasha Streshna, Stefania Strouza, Dimitris Tampakis, Yorgos Yatromanolakis
Installation photography: Stathis Mamalakis
Installation support & handling: Nikos Katsampanis
Visual identity: Eleni Kaskoura
CAN | 19, Chalkokondyli Street, 104 32 Athens, Greece
The exhibition engages Surrealism not as a stylistic reference but as a mode of thought. It privileges the hidden, the unexpected, the unknowable. Some works engage language through procedures that recall automatic writing, allowing words to emerge spontaneously.
Surfaces are built from construction materials such as bitumen sheets, liquid membranes or steel, subjected to chemical interventions and burning. Sculptural, hollowed forms and compact parts of larger systems sit uneasily between the organic and the mechanical, while metallic drawings on stainless steel propose a cosmos in constant perceptual motion.
Elsewhere, disused printed imagery is cut, assembled and reprocessed through painterly gestures and archival graphic interventions, producing formations that resist coherent reading. Recorded material is time-stretched into a sonic cascade, while moving-image works employ strategies of montage and recirculation to conjure science-fictive non-places that exist only as remnants of film.
Curated by: Dinos Chatzirafailidis
Participating artists: Elli Antoniou, Despina Charitonidi, Socrates Fatouros, James Fuller, Shambhavi Kaul, Konstantinos Lianos, Louis-Philippe Scoufaras, Sasha Streshna, Stefania Strouza, Dimitris Tampakis, Yorgos Yatromanolakis
Installation photography: Stathis Mamalakis
Installation support & handling: Nikos Katsampanis
Visual identity: Eleni Kaskoura
CAN | 19, Chalkokondyli Street, 104 32 Athens, Greece