NEON is delighted to announce Michael Landy’s first exhibition in Greece, BREAKING NEWS – ATHENS. This collaborative exhibition maps the current feelings and experiences of people in the nation’s capital.
NEON and Michael Landy invite members of the public to send in images that capture contemporary Athens and its social and political landscape – images reflecting the current state of our society such as news headlines, text messages, aphorisms, symbols, logos, slogans and graffiti.
I’m trying to open up a [kind of] bridge between me and the Greek public and asking them about how they feel. What is interesting for me is that I don’t know what I’m going to get, that is the interest, it can come from the left, the right, it can be social, it can be political. It is an avenue of communication with everybody really and I don’t want to be presumptuous about what we are going to get. In some respects, we are like a copy center.
Michael Landy
The exhibition is an installation in progress. During the next few months, Michael will select images from those submitted and then recreate them in blue and white drawings that are pinned directly on the walls of Diplarios School, at the heart of Athens.
Watch the exhibition develop on Instagram @breakingnewsathens
HARD COPIES SUBMISSION
Every Friday until 26th May 2017, 12:00 – 7:00 pm, at the exhibition space at Diplarios School. Those under 18 may submit images providing they are accompanied by a guardian who must sign a consent form.
Those members of the public whose images are selected by Michael Landy may collect his related print work from the Diplarios School between 12:00 and 7:00pm on 14th – 16th June and 19th – 20th June 2017.