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CURRENT Athens
19.11.2025
Exhibition: 04.06.2020, 18:00
05.06.2020-13.06.2020
05-13.06.2020: open by appointment, adashspace@gmail.com
Join us for the opening of the exhibition “No one speaks to our dust” featuring work by Christelle Makris & Dimitris Mitropoulos.
After the opening we will be open by appointment please write to us adashspace(at)gmail.com if you wish to come by....
Stories of Troumba
Christelle Makris
The work of Christelle Makris ´Stories of Troumba’ draws inspiration from the working class area of Piraeus and specifically its Troumba district as a sociopolitical and economical topography of Greece from the 50’s until today. Into play, are the working conditions of the lower income classes, in industries, construction, metal working, brothels and cabarets that are active among shipping activities ( international crews and the 6th American Fleet). Troumba is a special landmark that is characterized by an exaggerated stereotypical representation of heterosexuality and it converted itself into a ‘folklore’ image of the Greek cinematography of the 60’s. Christelle Makris criticizes with humor and deliberate lightness the lack of skilfulness of the male dominated professions, the working conditions of the sex workers and the network of social relationships and interdependent commerce that springs from prostitution (pimps, protectors, bar owners etc).
Τext by Eleni Riga
STIHIOMENO EXOHIKO
By Dimitris Mitropoulos
By Dimitris Mitropoulos
Dimitris Mitropoulos brings to A - DASH forgotten works, unfinished collages and part of his collection of posters, magazines and newspapers, as he found them at a family holiday in Vravrona Attica, long forgotten. In the STIHIOMENO EXOHIKO, old work from graphic design school, half-finished collages, political posters, newspaper clippings with politicians photos of 2009, collectibles, and Freedom Prints at the time of the 17N's arrest stand next to his threatened father, his old palace, a television and a big bomb ready to explode long ago complement this art happening. Although seemingly incompatible with each other, the time that has passed over them and their common place of storage has transformed them into a powerful whole at least in the mind of Dimitris Mitropoulos.
