Cartographies of the unknown

50 plin 1 Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition “Cartographies of the unknown” opening on November 2th. The exhibition takes place from November 2 until November 24.

Participant artist: Christina Christoforou, Christos Delidimos, Elias Kafouros, Dimitris Baboulis, Thanos Klonaris, Philippos Theodorides, Marina Yerali, Maria Trillidou, Nicolas Hasapopoulos, Anastasis Stratakis, Christophoros Christou, Dimitris Tataris.

We exist within the context of a language that is our own invention but which controls us in so far as we have lost sight of its origins in our day-to-day practice. This ‘language’, which means all that is in common and present communicatively, as regards structure and the ways of forming new structures, includes all the actual languages that we speak. But it also includes large elements of sound, the ways we look at each other, ways of moving, guessing in our actions, that introduce an uncertainty, a necessary uncertainty, about exactly how and how exactly we are expressing ourselves and what this expression, whatever it is, means for the person who suppose receives it or who supposes that they receive it. – The language of madness

This exhibition brings together a group of Cypriot and Greek artists with a symbolical vision of the self and of the world. The works selected and presented are a part of an initiative to unite a collective of works with a common language, a passage into a visionary topography, a necessary uncertainty of a personal cartography of the unknown.

Some of the philosophical themes explored by the artists are the reconstructed self in the world and alienation, spatiality and dystopian landscapes, fear of the unknown, nature, and hybridism. The greater part of artists map out through meticulous process of drawings their environments and have common themes of ambiguous narratives, while others emphasize the instinctual, natural side of the human animal forced to survive in the world underpinned with questions of alienation. For the viewer the constructed show pieces together a passage into a subconsciously unknown destination: what is real and what is not hardly matters and it’s only the pretext.

By definition cartography is the art or technique of making maps or charts and builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively. With this exhibition we want to model a language that is always coming round, and every time it becomes more and more unknown, our personal topography. So if we still believe in it at all, we should hold out for something surprising. Marina Yerali / Αrtist - 2011

Opening on Wednesday 2 November 2011, 8:00pm

Opening Hours
Monday - Friday: 16:00 - 20:00
Saturday: 11:00 - 14:00