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, Natalia Janula, Richard Müller, Eva Papamargariti, Konstantinos Pettas, Efthimios Sakkas, Marios Stamatis, Valinia Svoronou.

 

Organised by weekend.Athens and Natalia Janula