Date/Time
04/04/2024
18:00 - 21:00 (free entrance)

A solo exhibition by Yorgia Karidi 

Curated by Angeliki Tzortzakaki

4 April – 31 May 2024

Opening

Thursday, April 4 2024, 18.00 – 21.00

Live musical act: 19.30

I want to meet you in this place. I want to meet you where we leak, where we are almost nothing, here in someone else’s story. A place where I have given up almost everything: body, self, clarity, every component.
Jenny Hval, Girls Against God, Verso Books, 2020

Taking as starting points the voice, music and feminist literature around friendship, the exhibition Ode to friendship: Α score to speak from presents a new body of work by Yorgia Karidi for the first time in Greece at the THF RAW, the contemporary art series at the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation for the Arts and Music. 

The artist, musician, performer and radio producer often refers to her work as “live sets”. Driven by a study on performativity, the live sets focus on vocals and are characterized by an original lively manner that stems from her interdisciplinary practice that includes painting, performances, ceramics and other media.

The present exhibition, Ode to friendship: A score to speak from, has been conceived in dialogue with curator Angeliki Tzortzakaki, as an anthology of proposals for meeting and connecting subjectivities in order to empower them and at the same time soften the boundaries that separate them, including and further exploring, the one of language. The multiple points of contact that develop through this process of connection give voicing and listening a shifting spatial dimension while relocating and activating latent processes of emotional and cultural charge, particularly that of gender. The above proposals, which take the form of graphic and verbal scores, an audio piece and sculptural installation and a performance program, invite the visitors to participate in a personal, yet shared, condition where the stage and public space merge.

The term “graphic score” was first encountered as a musical sheet marked with drawings and words, instead of notes. Now the term is more widely used in the performing arts as a set of instructions or tasks […] related to the creation of a performance and serving as a starting point for possible improvisation or as a communication tool for the creation of movement and action*. In the exhibition Ode to Friendship: A score to speak from, Karidi’s verbal scores are used as an artistic medium while they propose a recurrent state of rehearsing the creation of an attempted common space for connecting fluid bodies and subjectivities. An ode to gathering, invisible microstructures of support and intimacy resonate with a proposal of voicing while listening, echoing a pulse that permeates the transactions of today’s affective economies.

The exhibition is based on a sound walk, therefore we strongly advice that you bring your personal headphones.

 *Dancing Museums Glossary by Susanne Franco and Gaia Clotilde Chernetich. Edited by Ariadne Mikou, accessed on 13.01.2024, free translation by the author https://www.dancingmuseums.com/artefacts/score/

Artist: Yorgia Karidi

Curator: Angeliki Tzortzakaki

Artistic Director: Marina Miliou Theocharakis

Exhibition Production Assistant: Nefeli Siafaka

Duration: April 4 – May 31 2024

Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10:00 – 17:00

                            Thursday: 17:00 – 21:00

General Admission: 2€

Book your ticket here

PARALLEL EVENTS PROGRAM

The Voice is also an Ear

Discussion with Danae Stefanou and Yorgia Karidis, screening of the documentary That Riff Ensemble and Live Set

13 April 2024

Saturday, 19.00 – 21.00

How to do a song

Workshop with Yorgia Karidi

26 April 2024

Friday, 18.00 – 20.00

Guided tour with the curator Angeliki Tzortzakaki 

11 April, 30 May 2024

Thursday, 18.30 

Finissage Ode to Friendship: concerto on the terrace of the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation

30 May 2024 

Thursday, 19.30