Acropolis Remix | Embraces: Utopian Proximities [2021]
Curatorial Statement
The exhibition shows video art, videoperformance, animation, videodance, & video poetry, addressing in a creative and poetic way possible and impossible proximities between bodies, which can be human, natural, material or artificial, imagined and digitally conceived.
The conceptual guiding thread and reference for the exhibition are the sculptures of embraces present on the east and west pediments of the Parthenon, on the Athenian Acropolis. The Acropolis Remix proposes a remix of the diachronic cultural landscape of the Acropolis, a space disputed throughout history and in constant construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction, thus establishing dialogues with the issues of the current world, enabling multiple reinterpretations.
The exhibition Embraces: Utopian Proximities proposes, in a positive way, embraces as a reestablishment of relationships in a utopian plane. Examples of these proximities are, on the one hand, fragments of the Parthenon sculptures which are in the British Museum waiting to be reunited again in Athens in the new Acropolis Museum and, on the other hand, the contemporary utopias of embraces around common causes, such as the dreamed embrace between Israelis and Palestinians for the end of the war.
Curators
Celina Lage
Lívia Lopes
Audio Visual Advisor & Video Editor
Celso Lembi
Artists/Artworks
Alya Ola Abbas
The Third Third
Syria, 2018
Andrea Mikyska
Reload of the Switch
Germany, 2021
Angela Biegler
Humanidade
Brazil, 2020
Apos & Daniel Loureiro
Be a Man
Brazil, 2019
Athina Kanellopoulou
A Pieta of a Semitome
Greece, 2021
Bianca Turner
Covering
Brazil, 2019
Calixto Bento
Uchuva
Brazil, 2021
Cotidiania Coletiva
ParteSim
Brazil, 2021
Diego Ramos
Nós
Brazil, 2021
Emilliano Freitas
Soft
Brazil, 2020
Esmeralda Momferratou
Fragmented Self
Greece, 2021
Everton Pereira
Anxiety 20/20
Brazil, 2020
Evgenia Makarova
Fear in Your Eyes
Russia, 2021
Felipe Negreiros & Julio Santa Cecília
Flutuações Corriqueiras
Brazil, 2021
Fotios Begklis
Grand Tour – A film in-debt(ed)
UK/Greece, 2021
Gilberto Junio da Silva & Heloísa Lage Sudano Ribeiro
Interligados
Brazil, 2020
Giovana Gabriela Barros & Igor da Silva
ECDISE
Brazil, 2021
Guido Nosari De Danieli
Sorry Sun
Italy, 2021
I.K.L.M.N
Star and Cross
Russia, 2020
João Diniz
Manifesto ao Abraço
Brazil, 2017
Josue Barbosa
acmn.iii
Brazil, 2020
Kateryna Bortsova
UNion Communion
Ukraine, 2021
Marsaille Milward
Balancé
Brazil, 2021
Mateus Torquato & Matheus Freitas
Dá-me a tua Mão
Brazil, 2021
Nicole Kouts
Eidolon
Brazil, 2020
Patrícia Siqueira
Entre Braços
Brazil, 2021
Paulo Accioly
Hug Soon Comes
Brazil, 2020
Romashka Does Something
Flowers Cure Souls
Russia, 2021
Sergey Gorodenskiy
Cell
Russia, 2021
Suruchi Soni
Blinking Senses
India, 2021
Thales Ferreira
Sparse Poems
Brazil, 2020
Support
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) (Foundation of Support Research of the State of Minas Gerais – FAPEMIG), Brazil.
PAPq – Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais
Institutional Partners
Graduate Program in Arts, Minas Gerais State University (UEMG), Brazil.
Acropolis Remix was showcased as Pavilion and Embassy at The Wrong Biennale 5