Date/Time
19/03/2023
19:00 - 21:00

Location
B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music

Maesmak, 2009, Video, 20´ 2´´

Maesmak is What’s your name? in Arabic. Maesmak is a meditative exploration of one day spent in Rutba in late 2002 to plant an olive tree against the war, just before the invasion of Iraq. Maesmak is also a metaphor about cancer, a disease consuming and invading the body of a dictatorship. Its main victims though are the ones without a name in the books of History.

Hippodamia, 2023, Video, 17´

Hippodamia recounts what Georges Salameh has witnessed since he first arrived in Greece. The video roams Viktoria Square in Athens, looking for faded origins. and raising questions regarding belonging.

Q&A with the artist. 

Moderator: Natasha Christia

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Time: 19:00 – 21:00

Free entrance

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If the event appears to be “Sold Out”, please send an email to education@thf.gr.

*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.

Natasha Christia is an unaffiliated curator, writer and educator based in Barcelona. Ηer research focuses on the way photography, archive, film and the photobook interact with the 21st century artistic avant-garde, contributing to a revision and renewal of the dominant narrative forms and ideological myths of contemporary visual culture. She has curated various exhibitions, among them, AMORE: An Unfinished Trilogy by Valentina Abenavoli (Void/Athens Photo Festival, 2017), Dragana Jurišić: My Own Unknown (Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 2017), Reversiones (Centro de la Imagen, Mexico DF, 2017), Lukas Birk: Travelogue Sammlung (Galerie Lustenau, Austria 2018), You Are What You Eat (Krakow Photomonth 2019), and ACTS I-VII by Oculi, (PHOTO 2022 Ιnternational Festival of Photography-Benalla Gallery, Australia). She regularly contributes essays on photography criticism for international publications and for artists.