PRESENTATION: Lamprini Boviatsou-Wait in the Boudoir

The entire work of Lamprini Boviatsou encompasses contrast and contradiction. The Mirror and the Antimirror. This and the Other. Presence and Absence. Love in all relationships and levels. The Material and the Immaterial. The Real and the Imaginary. The artist, using herself as a model, projects her image onto ready-made objects, with the intention of delving deep into human existence, especially feminine, emotions, hidden thoughts, as well as the grand themes that trouble the human soul.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Dimitris Lempesis

In her solo exhibition titled “Wait in the Boudoir” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Elaiourgeion in Chania, Boviatsou retrieves her works from the museum’s collection and engages them in a dialogue with new ones, creating her own boudoir. A room that opens up and unfolds a magical world… as it evokes emotions and memories that are inherent in everyday objects: lamps, glasses, a record player, wardrobes, and even a bed that conceptually and realistically connects the past with the future. Ancestors with descendants, life and death, love, dreams, the subconscious, joy, pleasure, pain, redemption. Through the reuse of furniture and objects, the artist maps out the hidden aspects of a world that exists within us, with its own culture, history, and ethnography, intersecting with the present, which is divided or touches upon, but stems from the past. In this way, she creates works that involve the triangle: artist, artwork, viewer, and they function interactively, as during the exhibition, she carries out a performance-action, inviting and challenging the viewers to become participants, accomplices, and cohabitants in her own boudoir. A counter-gift to the gift she will offer them!

Photo: Lamprini Boviatsou, Wait in the Boudoir, Installation view, Olivepress-Contemporary Museum of Chania, 2023, Photo: Courtesy Dimitris Lempesis

Info: Olivepress-Contemporary Museum of Chania, Dromonero, Chaniá, Creta Island, Greece, Duration: 2/7-29/10/2023, Days & Hours: Sun 11:00-17:00 or by appointment (contact), www.facebook.com/