The Breeder presents three solo exhibitions by three brilliant women artists
The Breeder presents three solo exhibitions by three inventive artists Sofia Stevi, Hana Ward and Kyriaki Goni.
SOFIA STEVI
When We Start to Understand the World
Sofia Stevi, Orange with two flies, 2022, ink and acrylic on cotton, 71 x 61 cm.
There is a house built by desire itself. It is a house that envelops a fabled story, as those you would find on the walls of a dreamy Renaissance villa furnished with enchanting frescoes and mellow tapestries, a dwelling vivified by lavish banquets and elegant inhabitants, enclosed by gardens sprouting balsamic aromas. Please step forward and smile: today you are invited to enter Sofia Stevi’s When We Start to Understand the World, an exhibition that pivots around a monumental trilogy of fabric paintings, casting its guests in an intimate adventure of introspection and discovery.
The journey is exuberant and pensive: expect a relentless palette of reds and greens, pinks and yellows, blues and oranges, all convened in an incessant and tumultuous festival moving fast and steady in the shape of bulging clouds, hazy vapours, watery streams, and mineral edges. The sincere colours springing from Stevi’s inventive brush embrace and cuddle the viewer’s eyes with joyfulness and charisma, as the accomplishment of a skilful director.
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HANA WARD
While We Wait
Hana Ward, Chimes, 2022, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 121.9 cm.
The Breeder is pleased to present While We Wait, Hana Ward’s first solo exhibition in Athens.
Hana Ward (b. 1989, Los Angeles, CA) makes paintings and ceramic works that explore themes of identity, introspection, and transformation. Appearing both ethereal and visceral, Ward weaves together moods, motives and narratives to depict Black and Brown feminine figures who reflect and dream, creating their sovereign worlds from the inside out. These multitudinous visions of unfolding self-actualizations are sometimes sheltered in the solitude of domestic space and other times liberated into landscapes. Influenced by anticolonial histories, spiritual texts, and cycles of the natural world, as well as the canon of art history, Ward’s work excavates the inner dimension to discover a world where one’s sovereignty is in the here and now.
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KYRIAKI GONI
Not Allowed for Algorithmic Audiences
Kyriaki Goni, Not Allowed for Algorithmic Audiences, 2021. (video still)
The Breeder is pleased to present Not Allowed for Algorithmic Audiences, Kyriaki Goni’s first exhibition at the gallery.
Kyriaki Goni’s practice is rooted in digital interventions, spatial installations and moving image and interrogates alternative networks of care and community, as well as human and other-than-human relations through new technologies.
Taking over The Breeder Feeder, Not Allowed for Algorithmic Audiences is a video installation also incorporating tangible objects like drawings on paper and a rare earth elements collection. In the video a fictional virtual assistant under the wake word name ‘Voice’ exhibits an odd behaviour. They borrow an avatar and appear in front of their users. The virtual assistant goes into seven monologues for seven consecutive days during a hot August, before their patent expires and they get kicked out from the Athenian apartment to an e-waste dump.
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special thanks to @backtothefuture_furniture
When: 23 March – 29 April 2023
Where: The Breeder Gallery, Iasonos St. 45
