Encounters with oral narration
Date/Time
18/03/2023
16:30 - 19:00
Location
B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music
Narratives and oral histories based on experiences of uprooting; testimonies emerging through images and other relics but also through the integration into the new homeland. Revival, representation, sharing. How do personal or genealogical experiences shape individual identity in the present while keeping alive the idea of eternal return? An experiential activity that will include a brief explanation of the artist’s project.
Narrators: Georges Salameh, Kalliopi Anthi
March 18 2023
Time: 16:30 – 19:00
Free entrance
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*The event takes place as a part of the THF Raw exhibition, Scaffolding
BIOS
Georges Salameh is an artist and filmmaker. His artwork and practice deal with an idiosyncratic experience of sedimentation, both in a physical and a metaphysical sense, through a creative comparison of reality, languages and narrations. His raw materials are files, recordings, images, which arise through peripatetics, gestures, reconstructions, and a sense of listening. He has lived in Lebanon, Cyprus, France, Sicily and Egypt. For the last six years, he has been residing and working in Athens. In his first contact with cinema and photography, two decades ago, he tried to embrace Athens, the city that shaped him, not for what it should be or for what he wanted it to be, but for what it is and eluded him. The result was a series of short films and photographic series recollected under the title Cahiers de la paix 1998- 2006. Since 1998, he has been exhibiting photographic installations and videos, documentaries and experimental films in Greece and abroad. Since 2009, he is the co-founder of the production and publishing platform MeMSéA. His artworks form part of private and public collections.
Kalliopi Anthi was born in 1964 in the Czech Republic to Greek parents, who were political refugees. She studied Special Education at Charles University in Prague and taught disabled children and teenagers for almost two decades. In 1990 she repatriated and since then lives in Corfu with her Czech husband. Since 2002, she has been working as a mental health counselor using stress relief techniques and the systemic representation approach to improve family and other interpersonal relationships.
