VIDEO:Weaving the Future II (Larissa)-Mary Zygouri

Mary Zygouri, Je reviens toujours, Video 2018, Duration: 12’ 29’’, Produced by and for The Raft. Το Art is (not) Lonely, curated by: Jan Fabre και Johanna de Vos, Trienale OSTEND, Organized by Mu.ZEE, Locations Crete and Ostend, © & Courtesy Mary Zygouri
Mary Zygouri, Je reviens toujours, Video 2018, Duration: 12’ 29’’, Produced by and for The Raft. Το Art is (not) Lonely, curated by: Jan Fabre και Johanna de Vos, Trienale OSTEND, Organized by Mu.ZEE, Locations Crete and Ostend, © & Courtesy Mary Zygouri

One of the most important performers of her generation, Mary Zygouri, researches, records and processes social and political issues with a human-centered character. She is interested to deepen and penetrate into human existence, that is why in her performance-video “Je reviens toujours” (2017), she unites women from the northernmost and southernmost part of Europe, Ostend and Creta island, using as common thread the art of embroidery, just as we know it through tradition and just as we ignore it through the diversity of nations, historical conditions and local customs. Common denominator is nature, feminine or broader, in idyllic and dreamy landscapes whence dream and desires are emerging…

Info: Curator: Efi Michalarou, Larissa Municipal Gallery-G.I. Museum Katsigra, G. Papandreou 2, Larissa, Greece, Duration: 24/6-31/10/2021, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 10:00-14:00 & 18:00-21:00, www.katsigrasmuseum.gr

 

Mary Zygouri, Je reviens toujours, Video 2018, Duration: 12’ 29’’, Produced by and for The Raft. Το Art is (not) Lonely, curated by: Jan Fabre και Johanna de Vos, Trienale OSTEND, Organized by Mu.ZEE, Locations Crete and Ostend, © & Courtesy Mary Zygouri