Kalo Mina of June presents Hara Piperidou with the new installation "From drought to flowering". Hara Piperidou, using sculpture, drawing and installation as her main means primarily researches the relationship between material and immaterial, visible and invisible, the generative power of the void / opening, the concepts of corporeality, power, as well as the expanded contrasts through a socio-political, but also poetic prism. 

 

The installation "From drought to flowering" consisting of the sculptural works "Let the water run", "Bring moisture" and "Blooming from within" comments on the issue of drought and invocation towards flowering through a socio-political connotation. Abstract forms alluding to imaginary organic forms of male and female of the archetypal human reproductive system point to the contradictory concepts of drought and fertility. Implicitly is indicated the urgent need to create the desired conditions of moisture, growth and productivity in a climate of intense general "drought" of our time.

 

Hara Piperidou graduated from the Master of Visual Arts of the School of Fine Arts of Athens and from the School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University. She also studied Architecture and contemporary Philosophy (RCA, NYU, Paris VIII). Recently she created the permanent interactive sculptural installation "Through Rupture Comes The Flow" in the public space of Elefsina (OSE Elefsina), in the context of the 2023 Eleusis Cultural Capital of Europe. Her work has been presented in Biennales (Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2009) and solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad such as Kunstverein Neukölln (Berlin), The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery (New York) and Momus (Experimental Arts Center). She has presented the seminars "Skin – In and Between Two Worlds" (2017-2020) and "The Body in Contemporary Art" (2014-2017) at the Benaki Museum (138 Pireos). Hara Piperidou has also curated shows at the Back to Athens International Art Festival, the Benaki Museum and the Hellenic American Union.