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PROBABLY THE BEST WORDS AN ARTIST CAN HEAR!
Gold Is The Loaf-Kneader, Gold Are The Keepers Of The Loaf & Wage Is Rent
Probably the best words an artist can hear!
"We are very pleased to inform you that your application for the 'Apply Within' exhibition has been successful."
My three works on paper will be shown as part of the 2018 Syn Festival in the Filmhouse during the Edinburgh Greek Film Festival.
The exhibition:
A decade ago the global financial crisis left a prominent mark in Greece by inheriting a debt crisis that torments the country to this day. Many lost their jobs and thousands have left the country in search for a better future. The exhibition reflects on a basic right: the right to work, to be financially independent. It focuses on all those who left their home countries to build a new life in the United Kingdom and explores the numerous challenges faced in the new environment in pursuit of a more stable life.
My Response:
The 3 pieces are to be hung in sequence: Gold Is The Loaf-Kneader, Gold Are The Keepers Of The Loaf and Wage Is Rent. They are an oblique response to 'Apply Within' and represent an initial idealised vision of work with a final cynical piece that sees work as a grim reality for many in western economies.
The loaf-kneader is the salt of the earth, the provider of a staple in life. The keepers of the loaf are the guardians and dispensers of this basic and both are thus 'gold'. Their work is golden and valuable.
By the 3rd piece, work is toil and exhaustion the result of working to secure another staple (a roof over ones head). The 3rd work also shows a Memento Mori on a TV screen, a reminder (through a medium that has, and still has a hold over millions) to live a life in balance, not to live to work. Finally, the 3rd work also has a voice from the Victorian past expressing melancholia, the precursor to depression and the inevitable result of work that is not 'golden'. We often seek the first 2 but more often find the 3rd.
Apply Within
24th November – 11th December 2018
Edinburgh Filmhouse
88 Lothian Rd
EH3 9BZ
"We are very pleased to inform you that your application for the 'Apply Within' exhibition has been successful."
My three works on paper will be shown as part of the 2018 Syn Festival in the Filmhouse during the Edinburgh Greek Film Festival.
The exhibition:
A decade ago the global financial crisis left a prominent mark in Greece by inheriting a debt crisis that torments the country to this day. Many lost their jobs and thousands have left the country in search for a better future. The exhibition reflects on a basic right: the right to work, to be financially independent. It focuses on all those who left their home countries to build a new life in the United Kingdom and explores the numerous challenges faced in the new environment in pursuit of a more stable life.
My Response:
The 3 pieces are to be hung in sequence: Gold Is The Loaf-Kneader, Gold Are The Keepers Of The Loaf and Wage Is Rent. They are an oblique response to 'Apply Within' and represent an initial idealised vision of work with a final cynical piece that sees work as a grim reality for many in western economies.
The loaf-kneader is the salt of the earth, the provider of a staple in life. The keepers of the loaf are the guardians and dispensers of this basic and both are thus 'gold'. Their work is golden and valuable.
By the 3rd piece, work is toil and exhaustion the result of working to secure another staple (a roof over ones head). The 3rd work also shows a Memento Mori on a TV screen, a reminder (through a medium that has, and still has a hold over millions) to live a life in balance, not to live to work. Finally, the 3rd work also has a voice from the Victorian past expressing melancholia, the precursor to depression and the inevitable result of work that is not 'golden'. We often seek the first 2 but more often find the 3rd.
Apply Within
24th November – 11th December 2018
Edinburgh Filmhouse
88 Lothian Rd
EH3 9BZ
Many thanks Davide and Syn Festival :)
