Microdraft - Paraskevi Frasiola
About this activity.
Microdraft - Paraskevi Frasiola
Window exhibition @ SIGN
June 12 - August 15 2021
OPENING: Saturday June 12 from 15.00 to 19.00 hrs with drinks and delicious Greek souvlaki’s from the BBQ! The artist is present to tell about her work. Due to corona we can receive 10 people at a time. Choose a time slot: 15.00-15.40-16.20-17.00-17.40-18.20 hrs. Call or send a message to 0623631796 (sms, signal, app) or email: signnl@gmail.com.
In the Microdraft diorama, the artist combines natural phenomena in the tradition of landscape art with an idiosyncratic, subversive sense of humor. The microclimate she has created works as a metaphor in which the weather conditions represent moods and emotions. All of this looks like a drift and in a continuous state of motion.
About the artist
The work of Paraskevi Frasiola (Greece, 1979) originates from the conflict between artistic action and the dread of exposure: it is the moment in the artist's life when she makes herself visible and vulnerable. But what happens when all of the above is essential? What form seeks attention while being possessed by nervousness?
To answer these questions, Frasiola creates autobiographical visual metaphors using drawings, ceramics and animations. Her artworks describe a state of mind of a caustic and relentless mood of self-deprecation. Landscapes work as a metaphor, a theatrical stage where Frasiola directs a scene. It could be a familiar place, or something she sees on the internet. In all her work, the feeling of mirth is a way of putting her own negative tendencies into perspective or reducing them. Or as Frasiola puts it herself: “I think the real purpose of my work is to entertain me.”
The window exhibition can be seen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from June 12 to August 15.
SIGN follows the guidelines of RIVM and the government: wear a mouth mask and give each other space.
SIGN.
SIGN is een levendige en experimentele projectruimte voor actuele interdisciplinaire kunst op nationaal niveau. Zij biedt jonge kunstenaars een podium voor verdere profilering, ontwikkeling en intensivering van hun kunstenaarschap. Daarbij wordt nieuw werk geïnitieerd in bijzondere contexten en wordt de nodige reflectie gegeven. Presentaties zijn er in SIGN, op allerlei locaties, en in openbare ruimte met een variatie aan omstandigheden, invalshoeken, disciplines.
SIGN wordt ondersteund door Mondriaan Fonds Kunstpodium Basis 2021-2022 en ook voor de periode 2023-2024
Location.
SIGN
Winschoterkade 10
9711 EA Groningen
tel 050-3132651
www.sign2.nl