Encounters with the artist
Date/Time
25/05/2023
19:00 - 20:00
Location
B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music
The artist Georges Salameh, will hold guided tours at THF Raw exhibition, Scaffolding, on Thursday, March 30, April 20, May 4 and 25, at 19:00.
Free entrance
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
In Scaffolding Georges Salameh maps out the way in which memory is molded, lined by fragments of oblivion, alongside our individual and collective existential contradictions. Monuments and images recast the perpetual journey of return as momentary projections, and, through it, a form of existence in perpetual exile, a worn-out longing and the death of a precarious chronology of History.
Scaffolding invites the audience to a series of empathy exercises concerning mnemonic operations of trauma sedimentation and emersion that are also accomplished through a rich program of parallel events, including workshops, screenings and performances – to name a few. By appropriating and reframing memory and oblivion ingrained in his family genealogy, – the artist becomes an archaeologist/custodian, and, ultimately, a mediator. He unearths and shares experiential fragments and emotions involving uprooting and its aftermath, in which we are in a position to discover a faint reflection of ourselves and venture into a manifold redefinition of our place in the world.
