Group Exhibition By
*ABDULLAH YAZIC *ANASTASIA STOIOU *ASTRIA *BATU TATE *DESPOINA VAXEVANIDI *ELENI ASPROGIANNI *FILIPPOS TATAKIS *KATERINA KOTSALA *KOSTAS KOINOS *MANIA ADAMOPOULOU *MARKELLA MICHALITSIANOU *SODA_POP *SELIN TARAKCIOGLU
Curation & Text By
*Elena Liosi
Mâlum officially opens its doors as a space for experimentation and the redefinition of artistic practice. Grounded in the understanding of creation as a living process, it establishes an environment that privileges continuous flow over fixed form.
This position is articulated through an opening programme unfolding across three parallel exhibitions –two solo and one group show. The group exhibition introduces this philosophy through works that approach the limits of functionality while resisting the consolidation of a fixed performative character. The practices presented –from textile work to sculpture and painting– engage material as something oscillating between function and its suspension.
In an organic sequence, the object refers to use, the garment to the human body, and the surface to the anticipation of contact. The compositions remain suspended between activation and withdrawal, while the desire for proximity persists as a trace, a projection, a potential necessity. Meaning emerges through the relations between material and space, form and void. What takes shape is not a series of definitive statements, but a living field of relations reconfigured with each encounter.
The aim is not the mere completion of the work, but the preservation of the conditions that keep it active and open. The exhibition integrates the process of production into the work itself as an organic, material and structural element –capable of evolving or remaining in transition. Functionality is not abolished, but displaced or interrupted, as the practices converge through a shared resistance to predetermined roles.
Mâlum thus operates as a “controlled space for experimentation” (Α serious playground): an environment where forms are tested, shaped, and sustained in a state of dynamic balance.
Photography By
*Sotiris Zapantiotis
