Stopping Point at Daily Lazy Projects / Athens

Stopping Point
 
Curated by Kostis Velonis
Assistant Curator: Faidra Vasileiadou
 
Alexandros Georgiou, Maria Georgoula, Zoe Giabouldaki, Dimitris Ioannou, Eleni Kamma, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Markela Kontaratou, Karolina Krasouli, Konstantinos Kotsis, Margarita Myrogianni, Theo Michael, Myrto Xanthopoulou, Nina Papakonstantinou, Tereza Papamichali, Kostas Roussakis, Georgia Sagri, George Stamatakis, Stefania Strouza, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Alexandros Tzannis, Dimitris Foutris
 
21/02/2018 – 10/03/2018
 
Daily Lazy Projects
Sina 6 & Vissarionos 9 (entrance)
Athens 10680
 


from left to right: Eleni Kamma, Zoe Giabouldaki, Margarita Myrogianni
 



George Stamatakis
 
Alexandros Tzannis
 


Maria Georgoula, Nina Papakonstantinou
 
Dimitris Ioannou
 
Kostas Roussakis
 
Dimitris Foutris
 
Alexandros Georgiou
 
 
Myrto Xanthopoulou
 
Tereza Papamichali


Georgia Sagri
 
Theo Michael
 


Evangelia Spiliopoulou
 
 
front: Konstantinos Kotsis
 
Margarita Myrogianni
 
Zoe Giabouldaki
 
left: Stefania Strouza
 


 



 

 






Chrysanthi Koumianaki
 



Alexandros Tzannis
 

Markela Kontaratou
 

Karolina Krasouli




Eleni Kamma
 
Images courtesy the artists and Daily Lazy Projects
Photos: Christos Simos





«Entre l’homme et l’amour,
Il y a la femme.
Entre l’homme et la femme,
Il y a un monde.Entre l’homme et le monde,
Il y a un mur.»


Antoine Tudal, Paris en l’an 2000


In erotic literature, we often find descriptions of the impasse of a relationship based on sexual difference. The exhibition takes as its point of departure a poem by Antoine Tudal, Paris en l’an 2000, which describes the difficulty of love through the acoustic and verbal similarity of “love” (l’amour) and “wall” (le mur) in French.
However, Jacques Lacan’s reference to the poem as a semiology of difference and similarity provides a basis in order to justify the relationship through the two lovers’ blunders and fumbles, their vain and unfulfilled reveries, even through excruciating pain (la douleur exquise) that turns into tragicomedy when there is no mutual response.
The exhibition reveals what pushes away instead of uniting, what stands as an obstacle and makes relationships incompatible through the difference of the subjects. Archaic and biblical references about the eternal battle of sexes, as well as the rhetoric of contemporary psychology on “complementary” relationship, become the ingredients of an indirect acceptance of the separation caused by biological difference.
The emergence of divergence between desire and the obstacle that annuls it conveys the comical or melancholic outcome of an event that echoes not just the division of the relationship, but also the conflict, the struggle and the effort surrounding it. Here, there may be winners and losers, but in reality both sides annihilate each other, since idealizations and erotic frenzies are altered and extinguished in the corrosive flow of time.
In perceiving the wordplay of l’a-mur as an insurmountable “love-wall”, or even as a temporarily surmountable obstacle, the exhibition aims at parodying discontinuity in this libidinal architecture of delimitation and cut.