Adonis Volanakis
The Holy Bachelorette in the Wedding Cave
"Let's listen again to Penelope. How is female narrative woven?"
Visual artist Adonis Volanakis creates blind dates between women who pose questions to each other for issues that are significant to them. This unique installation weds documentary and visual arts and hasstrong references to Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad. Amid seven pillars of white second-hand wedding garmentsand a loom weaving a new textile from old wedding gowns that carry personalherstories, videos are shown of women from Greece and New York talking aboutissues of equality, motherhood and companionship.
Opening Hours:
from 19:30 till 24:00
21 July
Reading The Penelopiad: A Fragment, by Margaret Atwood
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Peiraios 260
- 01/07/2015 at 19:30
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