Exhibitions cycle: WHAT IF WOMEN RULED THE WORLD? Part 2

Over the past twenty years, Yael Bartana has developed an artistic practice that utilises mainly video and the moving image in order to investigate lesser-known aspects of history, as well as events that shaped collective identities and subjectivities. Her video installations are based on or make reference to historical political speeches, demonstrations, activism and other events from the present or the recent past, which are narrated, recorded, re-enacted or adapted in order to critically evaluate their impact.

Aside from her distinctive audio-visual practice, Yael Bartana creates neon light installations where quotes, statements and slogans are articulated as sculptural manifestations while retaining their symbolic reference to a yet-to-be-realised political vision. The work What if Women Ruled the World (2016) has been reconstructed as a large-scale outdoor installation, in Greek and English, on the north and south façades of the museum, posing this archetypal question to the passers-by along the Syngrou Avenue thoroughfare.

Curator: Stamatis Schizakis