Or.artspace (Dimitrakopoulou / Δημήτρακοπούλου 89, Athina / Αθήνα117 41)

Opening, December 5th, 18:00-22:00

Exhibition days:
Friday, December 6th, 18:00-22:00

Saturday, December 7th, 18:00-22:00

18:30-20:00 Reading workshop led by Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki, Eliana Otta and Elpida Rikou.

During the workshop we will read the text by Audre Lorde, 'Poetry is not a luxury' (language English (greek translation is possible)

Yellow Brick (Eptapirgiou/ Επταπυργίου 7, Nea Ionia/ Νέα Ιωνία, 142 31)
Sunday / Κυριακή, 8 Δεκεμβρίου / December 2024
18:00 - 21:00

19:00 Εναρξη performance / Performance Starting (διάρκεια / duration 20')
'I invite you home', Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki directed by Elianna Otta

A hundred years after the exchange of populations between Turkey and Greece, Vasilikí Sifostratoudaki visited Capadocia as no one in her family had ever done before, after they were forcibly taken to live in Greece. She followed in the footsteps of her great-aunt, a midwife (mami), and tried to learn how the women who helped people through birth, illness, and death played a role in caring for communities deeply connected to the customs and the land they would eventually leave behind. 

How did these communities, families, and women create a new sense of home here? Vasilikí has been grappling with this question every day since she opened the Yellow Brick artist-run space in Nea Ionia, one of the Athenian neighbourhoods shaped by refugees and their stories.   

For the interdisciplinary project "Perátis (Περάτης): Exploring the exchanged practices of midwives between Cappadocia and Nea Ionia.", she shared her concerns and intuitions with the working team, inviting them to a collaborative process in which creative research is approached as an affective task capable of strengthening ties to past, present, and future belongings.

Curated by Eliana Otta, the project "Perátis (Περάτης): Exploring the exchanged practices of midwives between Cappadocia and Nea Ionia," was developed by Yellow Brick initiator and artist Vasilikí Sifostratoudaki, working in close collaboration with Elpida Rikou as research consultant and Nuno Cassola as director of photography and coeditor. A part of this project took place in Cappadocia in collaboration with the professor Bulent Ozcelik of the University of Cappadocia, and the historian Sanem Su Avci.

The interdisciplinary project includes video, installation, photography, and texts that will be shown in an exhibition at Or.artspace and performances that will take place at Yellow Brick.
 

Supported and funded by the Greek Ministry of Culture