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Contemporary Artists At NEW Museum Hotel In Athens

Contemporary Artists at NEW Museum Hotel in Athens

Forever is composed of Nows

NEW Hotel launches a series of art installations at the Art Lounge on the 7th floor and in other selected spots, under the general title Contemporary Artists at NEW Museum Hotel in Athens. The aim of the project is to promote contemporary art in Athens, as well as the continuous and unpredictable reconfiguration of certain spaces within the hotel.

The first edition of the program is titled Forever is composed of Nows and includes works by artists Petros Moris and Malvina Panagiotidi.

The artworks of Petros Moris and Malvina Panagiotidi take over the Reception and Art Lounge of NEW Hotel, creating a cosmos within a cosmos. Underneath the glistening surfaces, mythological creatures are about to awaken, delicate tangled threads wander on the walls, and scattered echoes are trapped in timeshelves, while archaeological fragments shake up the hallways.

The sculptures of Petros Moris emerge as a synthesis of archaic memories, geological matter, and eerie artifacts. Both the anatomical “Vein I and II” and the “Times Circle” diptych, along with the “Future Bestiary (Sphinx),” refer to an irrational and repressed aspect of antiquity. At the center of this artistic practice lies the metaphor of subterranean space—the domain of deep-time entropy and traces of a realm of bodily and spiritual anatomies. This materialized imaginary is bound to social and environmental transformations, unearthing the chthonic origins of what has been called the Past and what is called the Future.

Malvina Panagiotidi’s sculptural works reintroduce the spider as a symbol and carrier of wider systems of perception and re-creation of the world (“My candle burned alone in an immense valley”). An oversized web traps anthropomorphic prey and becomes a reservoir of narratives. The lifeless sculptures, scattered on the shelves of the Lounge, draw from the witch Erichtho, described by the Roman poet Lucanus, who attempted to recreate life through the inanimate parts of the human body (“More answers without questions” and other works). These fragmented parts compose a new body that echoes images of archaeological excavations. Unlike the ancient witch Erichtho, they attempt an inversion: to raise questions of Nows instead of giving answers. Forever is composed of Nows

Curated by: Maria Kasimati Tsoutsia

September – December 2024

NEW Hotel
16 Filellinon St., 10557
+30 210 3273000

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