Pylon Art & Culture X ALLEY

Pylon Art & Culture X ALLEY

Alley restaurant will be offering two unique dinners with local products, in the back yard of the Minerva Hotel. 

A fixed food sharing menu with wines to pair will be set over a long table.

Chilled vibes & good food are expected. 

The dinners will include a guided tour of the exhibition by the artists and the curator. The tours will be starting at 19:00. 

For more information please call 99-402221.

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Key Change

The Minerva Hotel in Pano Platres, lying dormant for some time now, hosts the project “Key Change”, where three contemporary artists suggest a series of sculptural gestures-installations that activate the space and the senses. Audiences are invited to approach these installations as elements of a dramaturgy where a suspended sense of time takes over. The protagonists of the story are unknown, but the imprints of their actions are everywhere to be seen.

The experience of entering the space and the fascination of tuning in to what came before, as well as our anticipated entanglement in what follows, becomes the setting of this exhibition. The title is borrowed from music notation. A key change marks both the transfer of a composition to another scale (both for re-recording and live performance) and also the differentiation of structural elements within the composition itself. Through this conceptual borrowing, "Key Change" focuses on the dynamics of shifting from one way of relating to our surroundings to another.

Through a sound installation that explores the space’s acoustic resonance (Spivak); sculptures and light installations which dissect the materiality of the space and its relationship to the outside (Kyriakou); a sculpture made with unconventional materials, based on a gesture of conceptual and material relocation (Eramian); the three artists invite alternative economies of sensing and politics of relating to space and place.

As memories intermingle with the present moment in the enigmatic enveloping space, dynamics of continuity and transition, overlapping and translocation are explored. Another way to approach the artistic gestures would be by thinking of them in terms of linguistic practices which play upon our expectations like irony and ellipsis, but also translation and rewriting.

Photo Credits: Charis Pellapasiotis, Christoforos T.