Snehta Residency is pleased to present a show by current artists-in-residence Alexandra Brunt and the artists’ duo Άθεοι, composed by Theia Connell & Theodoulos Polyviou. In the exhibition the artists will present the work they produced during their residency and research in Athens.

Alexandra Brunt works with performance, sound, object and text, making work that responds to states of tension, agency and the status of language. During her residency with Snehta in Athens, Brunt has developed a series of works elevating the performative quality of text, sound and image. Transcribed through her body each work reiterates different behaviours and movements to shift and form new meaning. Her artworks create visceral compositions of movement, sound, and gesture. Through these materials and imagery she creates a dialogue bordering between intimacy and exposure.

Theia Connell and Theodoulos Polyviou met at Snehta Residency and started working together forming the group Άθεοι, an anagram of their names. Through their collaboration they research ways of reversing hegemonic practices in terms of gender and artistic production. In the practice of Άθεοι, sexual innuendo, humour, and ambiguity meets site specific enquiry. Άθεοι take objects from public infrastructure, museological display and shopfronts, and playfully transform them into hybrid objects. These objects seek to be redefined, challenging the space they are in and the normative division of time in past – present and future.