Hyperlink Athens presents Evelina Kehagia's latest exhibition, "Tapeworm Love,". Kehagia, draws inspiration from dystopian scapes and parasitic entities, exploring their mutual relationships in a visceral exploration of symbiosis and decay.

Born and raised in Piraeus, Greece, and currently pursuing her undergraduate thesis at the School of Fine Arts in Ioannina, Kehagia's artistic journey has been fuelled by a fascination with organic and non-organic fossils, microorganisms, and ecosystems. Video games, sci-fi, and fantasy narratives have also played a pivotal role in shaping her artistic vision.

Through a combination of anatomical, mechanical, and industrial elements, Kehagia's artworks allude to medical technology and the emergence of a quasi-organic womb. The exhibition presents a parallel reality where artificial hosts and parasites coexist, creating an eerie and familiar narrative of evolution and intervention.

"Tapeworm Love" narrates the story of a dystopian symbiotic ecosystem, where life-preserving machines have become 'fossilized' in a seemingly lifeless world. The Neoprene Weaver, a parasitic entity resembling Earth's tapeworm, has evolved to produce neoprene, a synthetic rubber. These creatures feed on coolant fluids from machines, catalyzing them and propelling their beings into in a cycle of growth, transformation, and detachment.

Kehagia's work is deeply rooted in personal and ritualistic significance, with materials collected from abandoned spaces like trash bins, construction sites, and forests - tracing the history of each material in their collective and individual sustainable ecosystems. These material entities collect throughout their lifecycle an array of hangers-on that utilize their appropriated hosts for survival. This testament to the artist's curious connection to her surroundings is signified in the obscure aggregation of mediums into living organisms and post-futuristic networks.

During the opening day, the audio-vidual artist duo MIRA新伝統 will perform. The group consists of electronic musician Raphael Leray and performer Honami Higuchi. Their work juggle with theory-fiction, video, soundtrack & performance art to knit narratives and rituals around the problematics of Anthropocene, otherness, and post-humanity.