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

Accintental Woman Text Works (2007)

Notes on a missed reality (2007)

The image unfolded (2005)

I was born at the age of six, 6 B&W photographs with drawing and text, 2011

I was born at the age of six (2011) 14cm x 10cm (6 B&W photographs with drawings and text)

I was born at the age of six is a photographic work consisting of 6 B&W photographs with drawing and text. The basis of the work is a series of recent photographs of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. These images already holding the tension of a transitory post-Soviet reality are superimposed with dialogues from two Soviet Armenian films of the '60' and '70s.

The films - Barev, yes em (1966) and Chronicle of Yerevan days (1974) both directed by Frunze Dolvatyan - are examples of cultural texts of the period that mark a shift in the representation of the national and urban reality, introducing allusions to the Armenian Genocide and questioning the Soviet Utopia.

The work starting with the phrase 'I was born at the age of six' (a line of the female protagonist in Chronicle of Yerevan days that become an orphan at the age of six) initiates a narrative that weaves together fragments, exposing tensions while capturing a moment of emotional fragility.

Courtesy of Kalfayan Galleries Athens-Thessaloniki

I was born at the age of six, 6 B&W photographs with drawing and text, 2011

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

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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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.
http://www.atropavanitas.gr

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 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