“2” Johnna Sachpazis X Dimitra Zervou

About

COMING UP NEXT 

“2”

A 2 week exhibition highlighting the beginning of the season.

2024.05.14-26

@johnnasachpazis (LDN)
X
@dimitra.zervou (ATH)

🗿🗿🗿🗿 x 🧬🧬🧬🧬

@dimitra.zervou (ATH)

Artist Statement
 
Using sculptures and installations as mediums, I create narratives that examine memory and its essence throughout time. My influences stem from sociopolitical issues, which are constantly redefined between the present, past, and future; as a result, my artwork obtains a critical stance towards such matters, from which I am significantly influenced in my creations.
 
In my work, I use building materials. Materials that exist in our daily lives, and that we are used to seeing in a specific form. My installations constitute debris inventories: objects, textiles, glass, concrete, resin, plaster. They are improvised locations to which the “made” and the already existing are used to create new meanings, defying the world that we live in through a different visual reality.
 
Through my work, I wish to bring the viewer to a conceptual world that has a different point of view than the real world. My aim is to create new dialogues between the real and the conceptual.

@johnnasachpazis

Artist Statement

Drawing on my personal experiences as a Transfeminine person (she/her) and my background in photography, I seek to explore the materiality and becoming of the Queer and Trans body, through concepts such as trauma, embodied memory, affect, monstrosity

and post-humanism.

I focus on visual and sensory explorations between photography, sculpture and painting,

creating post-Frankenstein figures inspired by Susan Stryker’s work on performing transgender rage. I am considering these artworks as some kind of re-claimed post-

Frankenstein monsters. Using the monster as a metaphor for the Trans* experience, my work aims to highlight and transform the marginalized affective discomfort gender-queer people often experience within normative patriarchal environments.

The ‘monstrous’ – as an ode to the monster – becomes a tool of resistance against social norms that reproduce bodily identities according to agelong heteronomal and cisnomal dichotomies. I use references from surgery as symbolic rituals of becoming – a “panta rhei”. Surgical wounds transcend into gateway holes that mirror queer trauma: our leaks and flows, a “failure” to be normal. They invite inquiry into the chaotic unknown.

I seek to provoke a view that is located neither at the inside nor the outside, neither as part of the self nor of the other. We become at a dynamic and ambivalent in-betweenness. May the viewer of my work truly embraces this affective and sensory condition.

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