Ekfrasi – Yianna Grammatopoulou presents the solo exhibition of Antigoni Kavvatha entitled Threat Detected.

"By the mid-2010s, Antigoni Kavvatha had already begun turning her artistic focus toward history, collective memory and contemporary reality ‒toward the public sphere and global conditions‒ producing works that invite broader reflection and engage directly with social and political issues and concerns. In 2017 she initiated Journey, an ambitious and still ongoing project conceived as a modern frieze of historical events. Its thematic scope stretches from the October Revolution and Latin America to the experiences of immigrants at Ellis Island and the plight of present-day political refugees. The most recent section of this frieze is the composition Among the Dead Cities, where an image of the Warsaw Ghetto is placed alongside haunting views of devastated bombed cities such as Hamburg, Montebourg, Cologne, and Guernica from 1937-1945. Alongside the ruins, Kavvatha presents a series of large-scale compositions with metal canisters containing death and mass destruction. In an unexpected and darkly ironic juxtaposition, two objects also appear among these symbols of atrocity: a crumpled Coca-Cola can and a food tin of UNRRA, both symbols of postwar American dominance

In this series of work, Antigoni Kavvatha achieves remarkable aesthetic results. Her practice here is defined by rigorous draftsmanship and an acute sensitivity. A forbidding yellow triangle warns: Threat Detected. Kavvatha's works depict a violent and somber reality that endlessly repeats itself, pointing to a memory that must remain alive, both before and after us.", notes the art historian and exhibition curator, Υannis Bolis.

Curator: Yannis Bolis, Art Historian