Urban Antibodies examines the identity of cities and mutations. During the current climate our relationship to the urban environment transforms drastically as we witness the disruption of daily life and envisaging the future seems increasingly abstract. The exhibition intends to reimagine cities as living organisms, looking at sites of toxicity and vulnerability, recovery and care, metaphorically and literally.
In any landscape, especially in Europe, a wanderer will always stumble upon human traces of intervention. Even simple topographical features are results of ideological decisions, whereas parts of land that remain untouched do so because they exist as natural barriers or obstructions. [1] Every landscape is political and in a constant state of flux. We witness cities disappear and the urban wanderer becomes an “outlaw”, the commonplace mutates constantly. There seems to be an urgency to redesign the flow of daily life, invent something new and rethink the relationship to the cities we live in and notions of hegemony aesthetically, ethically and emotionally. The show derives from artists’ ideas on urbanism, examinations on labour, speculations on design and technology, poetic contemplations on the urban sphere.
The exhibition was shaped collaboratively as an ongoing process that evolved organically with the participants during 2020.
[1] Martin Warnke, Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature
Artists:
Lea Collet, Konstantinos Giotis (Fellow 2020), Natalia Janula, Richard Müller, Eva Papamargariti (Fellow 2019), Konstantinos Pettas (Fellow 2020), Efthimios Sakkas, Marios Stamatis, Valinia Svoronou (Fellow 2019).
Organised by weekend.Athens and Natalia Janula
Opening: Friday 30 October, 18:00-22:00.
Duration: 31 October-8 November, 16:00-21:00
15, Dimitras Str., 17778 Athens