Performance “Let Us Stop and Weep”
Date/Time
07/05/2023
18:00 - 20:30
Location
B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music
The artist will interact with printed documents and audiovisual material from the Let Us Stop and Weep archive. It is a series of photos, videos, objects and texts, which, in the context of the archive’s life and creative configuration, have been constantly rearranged and edited. Through a range of thematic approaches, he will explore, edit and curate new narratives.
Narrator: Georges Salameh
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Time: 18:00 – 20:30
General Admission: 5€, 4€
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*The event takes place as a part of the THF Raw exhibition, Scaffolding
BIO
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.
