All that melts into air is solid

Elika Gallery hosts from September 15th the exhibition under the title "All that melts into air is solid".

If reality is a construction according to which all that is solid melts into air, the intervening space between reality and the imaginary is a construct, which melts into air but is solid. The exhibition conveys, more than anything, a sense of this intermediary space that can be perceived but is not actually tangible. It focuses on the fragile yet solid construction, which is located at the intersection between reality and dream; this is how its title, the inversion of the phrase from the Manifesto of the Communist Party, occurred.

The works in the exhibition negotiate a condition of collapse and construction. Through their own means, materials and references create a suspended space, both real and imaginary, that is pending and is constantly challenged. They form an internal, subtle universe, which although coexists with the external, also clashes with it. They refer to the surrounding world but at the same time they hint at another one. They are transcendental, but not metaphysical. They are romantic but not fixed in a state of passive nostalgia. They mock themselves and others. Humor is their means of survival; it counterbalances their fragility and questions their persistence; it prevents their sweetness and gentleness from becoming corny and precludes their sense of bitterness from coming across as poisonous and destructive. The works construct a dream, which is as declarative as reality; it reveals reality while undermining it. They balance between something vaporous, literally or metaphorically, the possibility that hasn’t been realized, and something solid, to which they allude to, the true potential for the non-existant to exist.

Participating artists: Vassiliki Anastassiou, Johanna Billing, Kostas Christopoulos, Maria Karantzi, Nina Papaconstantinou, Kostas Sahpazis, Yiannis Theodoropoulos, Myrto Xanthopoulou Curated by: Galini Notti

The exhibition will run until October 29th 2011. Opening Hours: Tu-Fr 12.00-20.00 and Sa 12.00-16.00.