The Bouzianis Museum, in an opening to contemporary art and in dialogue with the Documenta 14, is pleased to invite you the exhibition of Brigitte Polemis. The show will be held in the great Greek expressionist George Bouziani’s studio and Museum as a retrospective of old and new works by Polemis, as well as video animations and sculptures. In parallel, as a historical artistic reference, there will be exhibited installations by the renowned Greek artist Yannis Gaitis.

Despite the fact that Brigitte started her career as an artist by using oil on canvas, in order to evolve her craftsmanship she decided to use digital painting on photograph and Plexiglas printing. Throughout these practices, Polemis transfuses depth to her artwork, in multiple layers (3D).

The main body of Polemi’s work focuses on the self-immersion of humanity in social media and technology. Therefore she chose to entitle her exhibition #iFollow. The lack of identity and ideals, the now common state of passiveness and loneliness of the young humans of the Western world, exhorted her to paint juvenile, faceless figures. Assimilation, which is not a result of critical processing but a submission to world order, urged her to ‘’dress’’ all her impersonal figures with suits. Combining all the above with her distinctive technique and pop art aesthetics, Polemis work becomes purely contemporary and up-to-date. The diversity of its materials (silicone, resin, Plexiglas) gives additional conceptual value to its thematic axis: industrialized, mass made, materialistic constructions.

Brigitte Polemis was born in Damascus, Syria and in her later teens she moved to Greece. She graduated from the Chelsea School of Art and her artworks have been presented internationally (2015 - Albermarle Gallery, London, UK - 2015 - Blender Gallery Affordable Art Fair, London, UK - 2014 - Vanessa Quang Gallery, Paris France - 2013 - FAF GALLERY - THE HENRY CLAY Louisville, Kentucky USA, etc.)

High quality photos at: www.brigittepolemis.com

The show will have as partner the public benefit Foundation THEOTOKOS, which provides special education and treatment services for preschool children and adolescents with developmental immaturity, cognitive developmental disorders and autism spectrum disorders. Furthermore, THEOTOKOS provides vocational training and job rehabilitation to young adults and both supports and intervenes in their family when it’s necessary. Throughout 52 years of its service, THEOTOKOS has served and supported more than 5,000 people. Nowadays, there are 370 children and young people under its wing, 60 of who are destitute or uninsured.