Black and white painted-over collages on A4 paper, 2021
Glazed ceramics, foam, 30×110 cm, 2017/2021
Acrylics and collage on unstretched canvas, textile, 220×170 cm, 2021
The Jug Goes to the Well Until It Breaks is VASKOS participation at “I heard it from the valleys”, a group exhibition curated by Eva Vaslamatzi, with the support of SAHA Association Istanbul, Stavros Niarchos Foundation SNF and ARTWORKS, 1-30 October 2021, Haus N Athen, Athens, Greece
In the series The Jug Goes to the Well Until It Breaks VASKOS is playfully confronted with traces of the recent folk past, retrieved and transferred through their work in an attempt at connecting or distancing themselves from them. Folk production and forms of knowledge, mainly anonymous, are approached here as a field of inspiration and possibility for understanding forms and behaviors which function individually and independently from grander national narratives.
Through a series of overpainted black and white collages, ceramics and mixed material paintings, The Jug Goes to the Well Until It Breaks explore how the symbols relate to our body today and the identities it seeks to appropriate. The works experiment with the look that comes from outside, on the occasion of a series of engravings of the 18th century by the French architect and designer Ennemond Alexandre Petitot in which the “Greek style” is depicted, with a series of disguises made of architectural and decorative elements. Using images from traditional ceramics and especially the pitcher, VASKOS try variations of the engravings with themselves as protagonists, reinventing the usability of the objects and the notion of exoticism.
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ARTWORKS.GR
“I Heard It From the Valleys” curated by Eva Vaslamatzi [Eng]
05/11/2021 TO VIMA
Memories from our history [gr]
Presentation of the exhibition “I Heard It From the Valleys” with visual work by VASKOS
19/10/2021 ATHINORAMA
Contemporary art has more in common with folklore than we think [gr]
Curator Eva Vaslamatzi interviewed by art critic Despina Zefkili
VASKOS 