WALKING THE DOG ON THE SALT
Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art in the context of “Routes in Marpissa 2018 – Salt”

The exhibition “Walking the dog on the salt”, which is being organised in the context of the festival “Routes in Marpissa”, having as this year’s theme “salt”, it approaches salt as part of a system that includes both physical and social phenomena. The quality of salt to reveal itself to the human eye only when the sea water has evaporated, its blurred nature, both visually and semantically (loaded with positive and negative meanings at the same time) but also the social, historical and gender-related aspects related to its production and use was the starting point for the research of the four artists who traveled to Marpissa and Paros and created a number of new projects specifically for the exhibition. In situ observations, research in different sources, folk traditions and personal experiences, such as the precariousness of artistic work and the traveling nature of the artists in residence, are intertwined. From the blurred quality of salt to the blurred human nature and the relationships of sovereignty, the works of the four female (coincidence?) artists create different levels of interpretations, which dissolve, evaporate, solidify and redissolve. Words play a role. Both in the initial selection of the participants (when I invited them I had in my mind the way in which they move from the text to the image and vice versa), as well as the elements of the presented works, either it is about a script, a lightbox, a verse, a title.

Artists: Eleni Bagaki, Myrto Xanthopoulou, Erica Scourti, Elena Chantzis
Curated by Despina Zefkili