F r o m : " E v o i - E v a n " C a t a l o g u e T e x t
...It is further widely known that Dionysus is considered the God of Fertility. E.H. chooses to render precisely this aspect of Bacchus. Her installation is a frieze of nine luminous boxes which represent cabled abstractions of vaginas that enact different roles. One discerns a photograph in the center of the piece which functions as a point of reference in decoding the rest of the works. Symmetrically and in split pairs to the left and right of the photographic image appear vaginas of : virginity, the menses, fertility, and senile delibility. The choiroi (vaginas in ancient greek) are allegorically disguised in order to describe the timeless history of woman and indirectly acclaim the creative act of birth.
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Bia Papadopoulou, Art Historian; Catalogue text, exhibition "Evoi - Evan" (excerpt). Old Hospital, Patras, 1999.
F r o m : " K e l y p h o s : S h e l l / C e l l " C a t a l o g u e T e x t...The pair of two-dimensional "pages" which hang from the ceiling complement each other morphologically and conceptually : the transparent one, made out of acrylic medium, contains microorganisms referring to the biological function of the body and the cells which are in constant motion as they develop and alter. The second page, opaque, black bearing oscillating shapes and texts, written with charcoal and pencil, alludes the human thought, the brain, the mental process, the information stocked in man's mind. Here, metaphorically, the kelyphos is of a binary nature: both material and immaterial, tangible and abstract.
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Bia Papadopoulou, Art Historian; Catalogue text, exhibition "Kelyphos : Shell/Cell" (excerpt). Municipal Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens 1998
...It is further widely known that Dionysus is considered the God of Fertility. E.H. chooses to render precisely this aspect of Bacchus. Her installation is a frieze of nine luminous boxes which represent cabled abstractions of vaginas that enact different roles. One discerns a photograph in the center of the piece which functions as a point of reference in decoding the rest of the works. Symmetrically and in split pairs to the left and right of the photographic image appear vaginas of : virginity, the menses, fertility, and senile delibility. The choiroi (vaginas in ancient greek) are allegorically disguised in order to describe the timeless history of woman and indirectly acclaim the creative act of birth.
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Bia Papadopoulou, Art Historian; Catalogue text, exhibition "Evoi - Evan" (excerpt). Old Hospital, Patras, 1999.
F r o m : " K e l y p h o s : S h e l l / C e l l " C a t a l o g u e T e x t...The pair of two-dimensional "pages" which hang from the ceiling complement each other morphologically and conceptually : the transparent one, made out of acrylic medium, contains microorganisms referring to the biological function of the body and the cells which are in constant motion as they develop and alter. The second page, opaque, black bearing oscillating shapes and texts, written with charcoal and pencil, alludes the human thought, the brain, the mental process, the information stocked in man's mind. Here, metaphorically, the kelyphos is of a binary nature: both material and immaterial, tangible and abstract.
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Bia Papadopoulou, Art Historian; Catalogue text, exhibition "Kelyphos : Shell/Cell" (excerpt). Municipal Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens 1998
