The Space Between

Exhibitions

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Iris Touliatou, The Cement is Just for Weight, Dear, 2012, courtesy the artist and DUVE Berlin. The Cities That he Worked on Are no Longer There, 2012 courtesy the artist and DUVE Berlin. Photos: Daphne Kougea
Iris Touliatou, The Cement is Just for Weight, Dear, 2012, courtesy the artist and DUVE Berlin. The Cities That he Worked on Are no Longer There, 2012 courtesy the artist and DUVE Berlin. Photos: Daphne Kougea
Eftihis Patsourakis, Pause, 2014 courtesy the artist and Eleni Koroneou Gallery. Photo: Daphne Kougea
Jonathas de Andrade, Recenseamento Moral da Cidade do Recife (Moral Census Taking of the City of Recife), 2008 courtesy the artist and Galeria Vermelho. Photos: Daphne Kougea
Jonathas de Andrade, Recenseamento Moral da Cidade do Recife (Moral Census Taking of the City of Recife), 2008 courtesy the artist and Galeria Vermelho. Photos: Daphne Kougea
Cevdet Erek Faça, 2014 courtesy the artist Photos: Daphne Kougea
Cevdet Erek Faça, 2014 courtesy the artist Photos: Daphne Kougea
Cevdet Erek Faça, 2014 courtesy the artist Photos: Daphne Kougea
Pawel Althamer, Self-Portrait, 1991 courtesy private collection. Photo: Daphne Kougea
Hrair Sarkissian, Stand Still, 2009, courtesy Kalfayan Galleries, Athens–Thessaloniki. Photo: (installation shot) Daphne Kougea
Basim Magdy, My Father Looks For An Honest City, 2010
courtesy Hunt Kastner, Prague; Gypsum Gallery Cairo and .artSümer, Istanbul. Photo: (installation shot) Daphne Kougea
Iris Touliatou, The Cement is Just for Weight, Dear, 2012, courtesy the artist and DUVE Berlin. The Cities That he Worked on Are no Longer There, 2012 courtesy the artist and DUVE Berlin. Photos: Daphne Kougea
Iris Touliatou, The Cement is Just for Weight, Dear, 2012, courtesy the artist and DUVE Berlin. The Cities That he Worked on Are no Longer There, 2012 courtesy the artist and DUVE Berlin. Photos: Daphne Kougea
Iris Touliatou, The Cement is Just for Weight, Dear, 2012, courtesy the artist and DUVE Berlin. The Cities That he Worked on Are no Longer There, 2012 courtesy the artist and DUVE Berlin. Photos: Daphne Kougea
Eftihis Patsourakis, Pause, 2014 courtesy the artist and Eleni Koroneou Gallery. Photo: Daphne Kougea
Jonathas de Andrade, Recenseamento Moral da Cidade do Recife (Moral Census Taking of the City of Recife), 2008 courtesy the artist and Galeria Vermelho. Photos: Daphne Kougea
Jonathas de Andrade, Recenseamento Moral da Cidade do Recife (Moral Census Taking of the City of Recife), 2008 courtesy the artist and Galeria Vermelho. Photos: Daphne Kougea
Cevdet Erek Faça, 2014 courtesy the artist Photos: Daphne Kougea
Cevdet Erek Faça, 2014 courtesy the artist Photos: Daphne Kougea
Cevdet Erek Faça, 2014 courtesy the artist Photos: Daphne Kougea
Pawel Althamer, Self-Portrait, 1991 courtesy private collection. Photo: Daphne Kougea
Hrair Sarkissian, Stand Still, 2009, courtesy Kalfayan Galleries, Athens–Thessaloniki. Photo: (installation shot) Daphne Kougea
Basim Magdy, My Father Looks For An Honest City, 2010
courtesy Hunt Kastner, Prague; Gypsum Gallery Cairo and .artSümer, Istanbul. Photo: (installation shot) Daphne Kougea

Contributors

Pawel Althamer, Jonathas de Andrade, Cevdet Erek, Basim Magdy, Iris Touliatou, Eftihis Patsourakis, Hrair Sarkissian, Hiraki Sawa and Vangelis Vlahos

Curated by:

Maria-Thalia Carras & Olga Hatzidaki

Dates:

2.10.14 – 14.11.14

Address:

One Athens, former Constantinos Doxiadis’ offices, Stratiotikou Sindesmou

The exhibition The Space Between looks into the relationship between cities, our built environments and our lives lived in between.

The artists participating in the exhibition explore our relationship with the physical, visual and psychological parameters of urban space. They look at borders and ways through them. They talk about the manner in which urbanity is experiential, how it can transform, alienate or contain and simultaneously touch our lives or even set us free. The Space Between reflects on cities’ rhythms, their faces and facades, the visual structures that form the punctuation of our everyday lives. Through different media and narratives, the artists comment on the personal, historical, political and cultural conditions in city life.

The exhibition unfolds around the courtyard of the former offices of the Greek avant-garde urban planner and architect, Constantinos Doxiadis. His offices, a landmark modernist building, built in 1958, were positioned over the Iridanos river on the foothills of Mount Lycabettus with a view towards the outer reaches of Athens and then the sea.

They housed amongst other things a publishing house, a design school, the graduate school of Ekistics as well as a series of arts exhibitions and talks.

The Space Between references Doxiadis offices’ as a testament to Athens’ architectural history, whilst acknowledging the changes in its usage (most recently into residential apartments) as an interesting commentary on buildings’ undulating lifespan. The exhibition also takes note of Doxiadis’ prescient research on the need for a balanced relationship with our built environment. Each work then relates a different story about what each city or physical space has to tell, and the human perspective in between.

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