SUN OR TOURISTS?
CHEAP DESTINATION OR GENTRIFICATION?
NEW HYPE OR ROMANTICIZATION OF POVERTY?
The series takes off with “Heat and Run: a greek summer tale”.
What is the essence of the Greek summer?
Every summer millions of tourists choose Greece as their top holiday destination, with the most days of sunshine per year and hours of sunshine per day and has been found to be the warmest European country even during winter.
From international capital and international cultural institutes to anarcho-tourists and the hyped art world, Greece is perceived as an uncultivated investment land or the place of counterculture.
So probably Greece has it all.
SUN, SEA, ISLANDS, CHEAP RENTS (for who?).
Meanwhile, 28.9% of the population is at risk of poverty or social exclusion, cops are everywhere,CLASS
ΕXPLOITATION/HOMOPHOBIA/TRANSPHOBIA/FATPHOBIA/ABLEISM/RACISM are totally embedded to the greek society, femicides every month, corruption, gentrification, rents higher and higher.
However, even under these circumstances, we all wait for the summer to forget everything and get that summer state of mind, because summer for some of us is this utopian space-time continuum outside the capitalist system. So what does summer symbolize in our collective imaginary unconscious? Heat and run will try to depict the two sides of the same coin.
HEAT AND RUN: a summer tale
AYE MARI X CANTINA ANΤΙΣΟΣΙΑΛA multi media group exhibition about the two sides of the same coin curated by Vassilia Kaga.
Opening: 15 Νοvember, 19.00 – 23.00
Exhibition duration: 15 November – 10 December
Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday 18.00 – 22.00
Cantina ΑΝΤΙΣΟΣΙΑΛ
Leokoriou 8
10554 Αthens
Instagram: @cantinantisocial
Email: [email protected]
ARTISTS
alienprincesshasgreasyhair
Bois Futuri
Αnastasis Panagis Meletis / Panas
Froso Papadopoulou
Alki Papastathopoulos
Sofia Rozaki
Klaus Jurgen Schmidt
Alexandros Simopoulos
Αntigone Theodorou
Cantiniera
*Vassilia Kaga, Alexandros Simopoulous and Antigoni Theodorou are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows