Opening: Thursday 14 November 2024, 20:00
Hybrid creatures and femininities that inhabit special worlds and claim freedom of existence, representatives of successive generations that make up the modern world "conquer" MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona, in the exhibition of Rania Emmanouilidou and... are moving "Underneath the radar".
Rania Emmanouilidou, as Generation X, watches the cultural reality and social identity as it takes shape every day. The exhibition "Underneath the Radar" highlights a series of themes that have run through the artist's work for more than twenty years: issues of gender and identity, politics and ecology, always centered on the body; the body, historically, socially and culturally signified, as a signed, differentiated, hybrid, transformed and performative body.
Drawing material from the internet, pop culture, music, fashion and art history, Rania Emmanouilidou creates in her work images of a personal mythology, with enigmatic figures, where traditional gender roles are deconstructed and the linear view of time is overturned.
Emmanouilidou explores the politics of the body, dissects and breaks down the structures of identity and power, while at the same time her hybrid iconography, in which phantasmagoric transformations of the human and the animal alternate, records the present and looks towards the (imaginary) future. Social consciousness, moral and political attitude, artistic imagination and skill coexist in her varied work - mainly sculpture and painting - which is rich in visual and conceptual stimuli.
The exhibition is the fourth and last stop in the Museum’s tribute-exhibition series, entitled "Four Artists, Four Attitudes", which features women artists and curators.
Curated by: Thouli Misirloglou, Artistic Director of MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art
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Parallel events
Collective artworks & exchange auction
Thursday 19 December 2024, 20:00
Collective artworks by Rania Emmanouilidou, Fani Boudouroglou and Lia Psoma will be under an alternative auction, organised by Eugenia Grammenou and Virginia Mastrogiannaki.
Exhibition’s Finissage
Saturday 25 January 2025
Information will be announced soon.
Rania Emmanouilidou CV
Rania Emmanouilidou studied at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she works intermittently as a commissioned professor. Her artistic practice includes painting, sculpture, video and installation. Part of her artistic research is the creation of sustainable materials for the production of works of art, as well as the wider dialogue with the public and the activation of small local communities for the co-production of cultural actions, through workshops, lectures and interdisciplinary, educational programmes. Emmanouilidou has presented six solo exhibitions and has participated in group exhibitions and projects in Greece and abroad. With Apostolos Rizos, they are the co-founders of Les Yper Yper, a hybrid platform for research and connecting the dynamics between the arts, visual communication and design. She herself has organised and curated exhibitions, projects and residencies in collaboration with private and public bodies (TISF, ICTVC, Goethe-Institut, Municipality of Torino-Italy, Municipality of Alberta-Canada etc.) and has presented seminars and workshops. In addition, she has dealt with scenography, costumes and the visual environment in theater plays and performances.
