Makris and wooden dowels (the face of Nikos Svoronos by Memos Makris), 2024

Makris and wooden dowels (the face of Nikos Svoronos by Memos Makris), 2024

Mακρής και ξύλινες καβίλιες (το πρόσωπο του Νίκου Σβορώνου από τον Μέμο Μακρή)

paper cast, wood, steel

THE TABLE BETWEEN BEDS together with Ilie Paun Capriel, Hangil Jang, Michaela Murphy, Kostas Roussakis, Jiyoung Yoon

6-13 June 2024

Grypareion Hall, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

"The table between beds" opens a working hypothesis on the habitation and sharing of the constructed world, as a table is between those who sit around it. As a shared space, the constructed table brings us together and at the same time prevents us from "falling over each other" [Hannah Arendt, "Human Condition"]. In contrast, the bed is individual, or rather private, and supports a return to the things of the self. From this thinking emerge key functions around the idea of collaboration and maintenance of the self that are explored in the exhibition as versions of the world of things. By choosing for the project the space of the public university, an atrium, roofless and enclosed within the urban fabric, we attempt tangible versions of destabilization of the constructed world. It is here, moreover, in the field of public education, that multiple antagonisms and claims are currently taking shape. "The table between beds" temporarily fulfills the demand for a collective defense of the conditions that constitute common life.

With the support of NEON Organization for Culture and Development

Kindly hosted by the Department of Economics

and the Department of Communication and Media Studies of the

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens