South likes: Christos Papoulias at Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens
South likes: Christos Papoulias at Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens
1966, A Child’s Attic and other Antics
Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece
25 February – 26 March, 2014
Born in 1953 in Metaxourgeio, Athens, Christos Papoulias returns to the area where he grew up, at Rebecca Camhi Gallery, to reinvent a vision of the neighbourhood based on his memories as a child. In this show, curated by Maria Thaleia Karra and Olga Chatzidaki, drawings, plans, collages and sculptures create a surreal view of Metaxourgeio back in the 1960s. An insight on a controversial area with both dark and romantic sides. His work is not simply representational though. It comes from a combination of different times (past and present) with his experiences and fantasies. The artist challenges his own past-self to make an “excavation” in his memory and try to overwrite his experience as a child in the area. The question still remains: In which way do we understand a place? Are we able to recreate our memory about a place, depending on our testimonies and fantasies as children?
3 137 (Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Kosmas Nikolaou, Paky Vlassopoulou)