Karolina Krasouli
Wish
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23 March – 6 May 2023
11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki
Kalfayan Galleries present the solo exhibition of Karolina Krasouli titled ‘Wish’. The opening will take place on Thursday, 23 March 2023 (18.00 – 21.00).
Karolina Krasoulis' exhibition at Kalfayan galleries continues the artist's research on the representation of visual phenomena, which are connected to the mechanisms of memory and language.
The viewer is invited to decipher the 'wish' expressed by each work that balances between the concept of hope and unrealized hope, desire and sense of dissatisfaction, between the present and the future, the real and the metaphysical. Krasouli's 'wishes' sometimes take the form of drawings with colored pencils on paper, while in other cases they are expressed through stitched canvases. The latter are the result of a long process in which the artist prepares the canvas, creates the colors, paints the canvas with oil and gesso, and then artfully stitches it, concealing the seams. The artist ‘molds’ the canvas into shapes that refer to, for example, folded pages of paper, books or envelopes. Her new works capture the multi-layered symbolism of a 'wish', and at the same time are 'open' to interpretation. Roland Barthes in his 'Theory of Texts' considers the text as a constant ‘weaving’ process. Every text is a weaving of earlier references. This 'intertextuality' can also be found in Krasouli's works. In the canvas-works it is expressed through their multilayered format. Krasouli treats and 'folds' the canvas like paper, and then adds elements of writing.
Artists
Karolina Krasouli
Karolina Krasouli (1984) is a visual artist based in Athens. Following her studies in Clinical Psychology (Greece and France), she obtained a Master’s in Fine Arts at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Lyon, in 2014.
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