Eva Papamargariti
Untether (Exhaustion/Excess), 01.06.2022
For the HEK Net Works series, the artist presented a collection of short videos on our social networks, featuring avatars who engaged the audience with enigmatic behaviour and monologues.
Using 3D modelling and animation software, Eva Papamargariti creates fantastic, sometimes uncanny landscapes and creatures that often result from the combination of incongruous elements. The video series complemented Papamargariti's intervention at the Liste Art Fair in Basel, where HEK was invited as a guest institution.
Artist’s statement:
«Untether (Exhaustion/Excess) is a short series of videos that approach a plethora of emerging bodies, at times as a single collective body or as unique entities. These peculiar avatars that resemble something between video-game characters and mythological creatures, make gestures, moving their bodies in lethargic or ecstatic ways. They engage in unexpected or banal motions and expressions whilst synchronizing, abandoning or uniting with each other repeatedly. Through this motion they create an uncanny choreography in which they attempt to identify themselves as individuals. At times these avatars pose questions and reveal their inner thoughts - it is unclear if they are talking to themselves, talking to each other or if they are trying to communicate with the viewers or other critters/avatars.»
HEK Net Works presented Eva Papamargariti's work Untether (Exhaustion/Excess) from 01.06.2022 to 30.06.2022.
Eva Papamargariti is an artist based between London and Athens. She has exhibited her work in institutions, museums, and festivals such as the New Museum (New York), Whitney Museum (New York), Tate Britain (London), MAAT Museum (Lisbon), Museum of Moving Image (New York), MoMA PS1 (New York), Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (Montreal), Athens Biennale (Athens), Thessaloniki Biennale (Thessaloniki) and Transmediale Festival (Berlin).