Elissavet Sfyri’s first solo show “The Hawk Shank Redemption” is a hybrid work that merges the boundaries among curation, painting and performance. In this painting on velvet series, humans and hawks coexist and become the protagonists of the same performance.There is a parallel narrative taking place during the show; the performance that is naturally and subconsciously given by the attendees of social gatherings in spaces such as a bar or a gallery. The anthropomorphic hawks painted on fabrics surround their prey and drag it into a unified performance. Throughout this work and show, the artist poses the question whether she/or anyone else could really liberate themselves from the artistic circle and at what price?
Elissavet Sfyri (b. 1994, Athens), finished her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2019. She is a graduate of the Fine Art School of Goldsmiths University London. She has taken part in several group exhibitions internationally such as MAMCO (Geneva), CICA (S.Korea), the National Museum of fine Arts (Taiwan Taipei), the War Museum of Athens (Athens) and she has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2020). She has been officially selected for the 23rd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (2021), and was awarded with the International film under 50min Fischer 1st prize for the film ZABETA (in collaboration with Sofia Sfyri), which got nominated for the IRIS Hellenic Film Awards. She recently gave a lecture at the University of West Attica for the MSc in Interior Architecture: Sustainable and Social Design with the title: Social experiments with Aesthetics and sound. She organized, curated, produced and took part as an artist at Saline Art Residency, with permanent public sculptures in Ermioni and Porto Heli Greece, collaborating with emerging artists that right after her residency got supported by international foundations such as; the Somerset House, the Cannes Film Festival, New Museum New York, Lenbachhaus, Chisenhale Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Breeder Gallery, the BFI, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Thessaloniki Film Festival, the Athens International Film Festival, Benaki museum, NEON Greece, Stegi – the Onassis Foundation, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Stavros Niarchos Cultural Foundation and more. Selected
Exhibitions/Shows: Performative Encounters, Hyle Athens (2021); ZABETA, 23rd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (2021); Nychtes Premieras Athens International Film Festival (2021); 1821, ΟΠΤΙΚΗ ΜΙΑΣ ΕΠΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΗΣ, War Museum of Athens, Athens (2021); Saline Art Residency, Public Sculptures, Porto Cheli & Ermioni (2018); To Camp, Centre d’Art Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva (2018);Sisyphus Ver. 20.18, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2018); New Media Art, CICA museum, Seoul (2018); UR: Human Presence, Aures Sensorium, London (2018); MA Sculpture Show, Royal College of Art, London (2019), WIP show, Royal College of Art, London (2018), Practicing, HD Kepler, Athens (2018); Eye’s walk festival, Syros (2017); Χοροί Χωρεί μας, MIR festival, Athens (2018); _ U _ _ S, London (2016); Goldsmiths Fine Art Show, London (2016)
Aliki Makrygianni completed her master’s degree at Edinburgh University in the Department of Film, Exhibition & Curation in September 2017. She is a graduate of Communication, Media and Cultural Management in Panteion University. In 2017, she got a scholarship from the University of Edinburgh, to do an internship and research at the Microscope Gallery in New York. She has taken part in various seminars such as at the Festival Readings at Eleusis 2021 (2019), at the Plissken Lab of the Plissken Festival (2015), as well as she did an Erasmus at the University Nouvelle Sorbonne-Paris 3, Médiation Culturelle (2011). She has worked at the Art et Marges Museum in Brussels (2014), and was a production assistant at the Syros International Film festival (2016), as well as collaborated with the Greek Ministry of Culture – Festivals Department (2013). She took part in the film selection process at the Cambridge Film Festival (2016) and was a Stage Management Assistant at the Plissken Festival (2015), as well as volunteered at the Oxfam GB Music Shop in Glasgow. Today she works as an art mediator at NEON and at the same time is a freelance booker and event planner for music shows through the french collective and music agency Pilori Productions
The Hawk Shank Redemption
A solo exhibition of Elissavet Sfyri Curated by Aliki Makrigianni
Opening: Monday 11 of July 7.00 pm-10:30 pm
Duration: 11.07.2022 – 15.08.2022
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