The image unfolded (2005)


Notes on a conception of a film (2010)

Notes on a missed reality (2007)

 

Accintental Woman Text Works (2007)

 

Once again fate acted alone...who will rescue me? (2009)

  

 

The image unfolded (2005) 1.5x10 m (Colour marker on paper)

The piece was generated from words collected from writing that existed in the walls of my studio. The starting point was the attempt to document the space of the idea, to create an inventory of the artist’s practice. The piece became a way to explore the relation between word, image and story, a way of developing an alternative to the sequencing of events and shots in a film. It is based on the repetition of the words ‘image’ and it is ‘unfolding’. The work seeks to document the gaps between images, sounds and sentences

Courtesy of Kalfayan Galleries Athens-Thessaloniki
The image unfolded. Installation Shots, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

Notes on a conception of a film, 190 B&W photographs with drawing and text, 2007-2010

Notes on a conception of a film (2007-2010 ) 14cm x 10cm (190 B&W photographs with drawings and text)

Notes on a conception of a film is a photographic installation and derives from a personal archive of snapshots collected in Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Belgium, UK, Germany, France, Holland, Spain, Mauritius, Canada and USA. The photographed spaces are presented with no identification as to the specific locations they were taken or any chronology. The combination of text and drawing infuse the photographs with emotional and psychological allusions.  

Referencing both the filmic frame and a storyboard and blending narrative and documentary, the notes explore narrative moments and attempt to construct the landscape of a personal geography. The hand-tinted process brings to mind the childlike activity of colouring books, as an attempt to make sense of space, colour, architecture and perspective, but can ultimately be read as the artist’s attempt to question representation and to situate the photographed spaces in one’s personal imagery

Courtesy of Kalfayan Galleries Athens-Thessaloniki



Notes on a conception of a film, 190 B&W photographs with drawing and text, 2007-2010

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Notes on a missed reality (2007) 30x20 cm (Ink on hand made paper)

Notes on a missed reality consist of a series of works based on current news articles sourced from the Internet. Echoing the form of a mind map, the work signifies an attempt to make sense of a perceived and recorded reality through a system of linkages and associations, an attempt to navigate through a vast data of information. Note on a missed reality, Version 1 is the first piece in the series and particularly focuses on issues of geographical and environmental change, looking for lost paradises, present realties and fantasies of a probable future. It was made especially for the exhibition Atropa Vanitas, Cosmos of Culture, Athens.
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Courtesy of Kalfayan Galleries Athens-Thessaloniki

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Note on a missed reality, Version 1, Ink on hand made paper, 30x20cm, 2007

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The glass is broken, Installation Shots, Kalfayan Galleries Athens, 2007

Accidental Woman (2007) Text Works (Various Media)

The glass is broken, neon light, 2007
I await for a moment to pass, White ink on black paper, 2007, 20x30cm
I woke up again, White ink on black paper, 2007, 20x30cm
Always looking, White ink on black paper, 2007, 20x30cm

The above works were developed for the exhibition Accidental Woman that took place at Kalfayan Galleries, Athens in November 2007, in collaboration with painter Despina Stokou. The exhibition was built upon the accidental meeting of two women that became the starting point for the unfolding of a duel. Utilising a range of media, languages and narrative strategies, the two artists explored the accidental, a detail that has just caught the eye, what lies in between words and images, what stays in the back of the mind.

This body of works mark a departure for Aikaterini Gegisian into exploring text and language as a form of drawing. The works focus on moments of confusion and fragility that build up ambiguous narratives.

Courtesy of Kalfayan Galleries Athens-Thessaloniki


I await for a moment to pass, White ink on black paper, 2007, 20x30cm
I woke up again, White ink on black paper, 2007, 20x30cm
Always looking, White ink on black paper, 2007, 20x30cm

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once again fate had acted alone … who will rescue me?, Instlations Shots, Fucking Tourists!, RemapKM2, Athens

once again fate had acted alone … who will rescue me? (2009) 140 x 85 cm (Blow-up Polaroids )

once again fate had acted alone … who will rescue me? consists of 3 blow-up Polaroid images, pasted on the wall. Balancing between the ephemerallity of holiday snapshots and a scale that memorialises the image, the work questions the ways space is constructed and consumed. Playing with the tension between the visual and literal possibilities of meaning, the project presents a series of ambiguous images that attempt to inscribe the viewer in space.

Courtesy of Kalfayan Galleries Athens-Thessaloniki


once again fate had acted alone … who will rescue me?, Instlations Shots, Fucking Tourists!, RemapKM2, Athens