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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/35874| Title: | Two Artists, Solo Show, Vicky Pericleous – Vasilis Zografos The unsettling event of an enigma (to be forever, but never to have been*), curated by Maria Stathi | Authors: | Pericleous, Vicky Zografos, Vasilis |
Major Field of Science: | Humanities | Field Category: | Arts | Keywords: | Arts;Solo Show/Exhibition;site-specific installation;dialectical space;spatiotemporal expansions, folds and compactions,;Topos;visual performativities and speculations | Issue Date: | 3-Apr-2025 | Source: | Art Seen Gallery, Nicosia | Link: | https://www.artseeneditions.com/en/project-single/vicky-pericleous-vasilis-zografos-the-unsettling-event-of-an-enigma-to-be-forever-but-never-to-have-been | Conference: | The unsettling event of an enigma (to be forever, but never to have been*), | Abstract: | Art Seen is delighted to present Vicky Pericleous and Vasilis Zografos duo solo exhibition. "The exhibition unfolds through a subversive and associative dialogue toward a visual investigation, which primarily choreographs the unseen, intermediary space. That is, the dialectical space between the two, the space between the works, as well as the one that potentially arises through the viewers’ interpretations. The site-specific installation that emerges in space through a set of spatiotemporal expansions, folds and compactions, - a product of visual performativities and speculations- could, at last, be inscribed or re-thought as the after-sound, or even as the –interactive- echo of one or multiple events. The title of the exhibition recalls Man Ray's work L’Enigme d’Isidore Ducasse (1920), and the subtitle refers to the eponymous phrase in Jorge Luis Borges' poem The Enigmas from the collection Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Poems, 1923-1967 (1972). This collaborative installation, intending to involve the unseen as existent and the intangible as active in order to process and extend the visible and the perceptible, is primarily a political act. | Description: | Frequencies: Images Unbound by Alexandra Athanasiadou A frequency seems to pulse between what is perceived as familiar and what is sensed as uncanny in the exhibition The unsettling event of an enigma (to be forever, but never to have been)*. If one approaches this subtle zone through a filter beyond that of visual language, it becomes clear that the works of the two artists contract and expand both within the confines of their frames and beyond them. This happens spatially, as the works intertwine not only with one another but also with the exhibition environment itself, absorbing it into their poetic process. It also occurs temporally, as many of the pieces resonate with the history of art, forming echoes of a broader dialogue. Within this framework, two movements emerge. The first is that of suspension: the artworks detach from the images they reference and return to them, amplified through their own visual strategies to be presented. In this new terrain, Vasilis Zografos renders roses freed from their historical burden – fragile, isolated against a backdrop of grey. Their resonance is sculptural rather than immediately representational. Similarly, other images explore the timeless desire and curiosity to transform matter into cultural object – like a stone depicted as a vase, which, emerging through colour, seems almost weightless. This suspension gives way to a second movement: destabilisation – paradoxically born of presence. The works assert themselves in the space as gestures of resistance against the noise of visual saturation and the rigidity of conventional perception. They act like sounds – recognisable, yet transparent – functioning as conduits within the fissures of fractured visual politics. Vicky Pericleous repeatedly disrupts narrative flow, whether through shifts in materiality or through aesthetic gestures embedded within her images. Palm trees at the edges of frames resemble snakes; suddenly, the image shifts its centre of gravity, the window moves, pushing time into the next frame. The snake transforms into ceramic shards – as if shedding its skin – to reappear within a newly forming mythology, revealed through the act of transition. These movements – and those preceding them – are present, made possible by the involvement of the viewer. Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset insightfully describes this subtle shift in the artwork/viewer dynamic: ‘Every objective image, on entering or leaving our consciousness, produces a subjective reaction, just as a bird that lights on or leaves a branch starts it trembling, or turning on and off an electric current instantly produces a new current.’ This new current, sparked by the viewer’s active engagement, is a shared concern for both artists, whose works remain open, de-crystallised, untethered from fixed narratives – constantly in dialogue with one another and with a third party, if such positions of viewing still apply. In this space – between suspension and the destabilisation of symbols and images entrenched in the imaginary – the works of Vasilis Zografos and Vicky Pericleous unfold enigmatically. They hold the power to direct our attention to whispers from a rococo salon filtered through a modern loudspeaker, or to birdsong ringing at double volume under the rise of twin suns. At the same time, their effect extends in multiple directions – alongside the image, and through it. Alexandra Athanasiadou, PhD PHLSPH – Philosophy & Photography Lab Short Bios Vicky Pericleous is a visual artist and assistant professor at Cyprus University of Technology,Department of Fine Arts. She has studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, Wimbledon School of Art, London, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Her work has shown in exhibitions at various international venues including Espace Commines, Paris,Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg, Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery of the National College of Arts, Lahore, Multiplied Art Fair, Christie’s, London as well as in various private galleries abroad. She has also exhibited in Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Limassol, and NiMAC –Municipal Art Centre, Omikron Gallery, Art Seen, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, amongst others, all in Nicosia. Pericleous exhibited in Monodrome, the 3rd Athens Biennale, and at Sanat Limani, as part of the European Capital of Culture Istanbul 2010. She has initiated and participated in the international visual-research project “Uncovered: Nicosia International Airport,” 2010-13. She has been an active member of the Noise of Coincidence Art Group, an international art group / platform that has organised several exhibitions, actions, happenings and talks in Cyprus and abroad. Her work has been published and presented in many acclaimed books, art catalogues and press, including book publications by the Valand Academy of the Gothenburg University in collaboration with the Hasselblad Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden, 2022 and The University of Columbia Press, Sept. 2019. Vasilis Zografos is a visual artist and Assistant Professor at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds a Master’s degree in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Groningen, the Netherlands, and from the Interdepartmental Program of the Polytechnic School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Art Conservation, Preservation, and Restoration. His work is supported by Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery (Athens), Lola Nikolaou Gallery (Thessaloniki), and Espace_L Gallery (Geneva). Selected solo exhibitions: Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens (2025, 2020, 2015), Espace_L Gallery, Geneva (2024, 2022, 2018, 2017); Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki (2023, 2018), Helen Day Art Center, Vermont, USA (2019), Center of Contemporary Art CACT, Thessaloniki (2012), Batagianni Gallery, Athens (2012, 2009), Mirta Demare Gallery, Rotterdam (2011). Selected international group exhibitions: National Museum of Contemporary Art EMST, Athens (2018), National Museum of China, Beijing (2017), SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo (2017), MuCEM, Marseille (2014), 1st and 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2007, 2014). He is the founder of Vita Zita Studio. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/35874 | Rights: | @vickypericleous @vasiliszografos @artseen @alexandrathanasiadou | Type: | Exhibitions | Affiliation : | Cyprus University of Technology Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Art Seen Gallery, Nicosia |
Publication Type: | Selected Artwork | Participation: | Exhibition |
| Appears in Collections: | Art and Design |
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