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THE CHILDHOOD PROJECT
An Experiential Visual Approach on the Thematic of CHILDHOOD
The issue of Childhood is commonly known to concern all scientific fields that study the human. Without a doubt it is a captivating issue, mainly because it can find references in adult life. We all carry memories, images, bits and pieces from the sum of interactions of that time, which eventually mark the rest of our life. The intention of the project is to investigate issues that concern childhood, using art means as its main tool.
The artists taking part are asked to create personal-experiential works from their childhood, digging up memories and images from those years and show aspects of childhood that is sometimes pleasant and sometimes not.
This recording will result in the investigation of socio-cultural problems, stereotypes traumatic projections, parental rejection, abuse and all the other “rough” issues connected with childhood.
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Fotini Polydorou
A middle-aged man is reflecting and going through all the stages of his childhood. He expresses himself and acts
like a child discovering the world around him. Progressively he starts growing up, narrates some of his childhood memories and eventually speaks as an adult.
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As an additional event of The Childhood Project part of the works will be auctioned by Mr P. Vergos. The amount raised from the works will be offered to the institution for infants «MITERA» for the needs of the children’s accommodation (http://www.ert.gr/afieromata/kids/mitera.asp).
The Childhood Project’s theorists:
Dr. Athanasios Christos, art critic, Assistant Professor of Science and Art at the University of Ioannina, Dr. Nikolaos Sideris, psychiatrist-psychoanalyst, family therapist, author, professor at the School of Architecture, NTUA.
Contributing artists:
Nikos Alexiou, Madeleine Aggeletou, Eleftheria Alexandri, Sophia Gialousi, Helen Theofilaktou, Elena Karagianni, Nina Kotamanidou, Angeliki Malafouri, Sevi Margariti, Marina Maravelaki, Niki Bisyla, Maria Xenouli, Afrodite Papadouli, Elpida Panonidou, Fotini Polydorou, Athena Rompie, Olympia Toptsidou , Alexander Tsamouris, Nana Sahini, Angeliki Svoronou, Andreas Sitorengo, Eri Skyrgianni, Angelos Spartalis, Simeon Tsakiris, George Tserionis.
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Ioanna Sachini
"Once upon a time there was a duck that had a duckling she didn’t care for, so we went with your aunt and got it »
(one of my mother’s fairy tales from my childhood). Naturally. I never asked whatever happened to the duckling,
because I was certain it had perished, as it usually happened with the rest of the ducklings in our hen house. Ten
years after I was called to relate to the duckling and hence the hen house took on different dimensions and the
fairy tale changed."
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Eleni Karagianni
“Diary of an unborn” essentially is a comment on the stereotypes projected upon the child-woman. An emotionally charged collage, it directly and indirectly exposes personal images, choices and reactions around the roles a woman takes in from the beginning of her life. A critical question is suggested: “do I really exist?” Have I become that person my personal dynamics could create? The pages from Falatsi’s “letter” add to the sense of the unfulfilled Self, as they float between personal photographs, symbols and a genral sum of elements that aim to reject the acceptable figure of what is called a Woman.
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Eri Skyrgianni
In the series created for the Project, Eri Skyrgianni presents an environment that has served as an endless playground
for her: the Garden. Her images relate to the plastic matter that constitutes them (as it so happens in sculpture).
Their morphology illustrates her perception for the sweet side of life: her world is colorful, liquid, ever fluctuating,
rounded, shiny, looking like honey drops. The woks’ final countenance is semiologicaly analogical to the
phoptographic snapshot.
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Curating: Eleni Karagianni
Melina Mercouri Cultural Center:
Irakleidon and Thessaloniki str, Thissio, Athens
Opening: 02/02/2010 at 19:30
Auction: 17/02/2010 (entry time: 18.30)
Duration: 2 -21 February Monday to Saturday: 10:00 to 20:00 & Sunday 10:00-14:00
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