PCAI Collection artist Eva Papamargariti participates in Serpentine’s, A Gathering on Art and Land, a day centring art and design-led approaches to planting, farming, seeding, gardening and burying on Saturday 13 July 2024, from 11am to 5.30pm. Through conversations and presentations, the event explores our relationship to the land, using ground and soil practices to start ecological conversations and reveal their potential for transformation, regeneration, and hope.
This gathering advocates for imagination and coexistence with the non-human world, platforming alternative ways of understanding and relating to the land in the face of a destructive, globalised discourse. Highlighting the importance of creativity, Indigenous land management and communal engagement, A Gathering on Art and Land underscores the transformative power of culture and stewardship, emphasising how artists engage directly with the earth in their practices.
As part of the programme, PCAI Collection artist Eva Papamargariti presents her new video work All That is Hidden.
All that is hidden explores a multitude of natural and synthetic organisms around the former coal-mining area of Zollverein in Germany, looking at them from micro to macro-scale. These organisms are integral components of a dynamic ecosystem and bear witness to the history of the site, carrying within them the traces of the historical, geological events and forces that have happened through the years.
The work attempts to show how the traces of the past have been virtually “engraved” into the landscape and soils of Zollverein. What kind of worlds and hybrid forms could emerge from this amalgamation? All that is hidden unfolds a narrative that reveals traces, remnants, hidden and invisible organisms, fossils and new hybrid life forms that co-exist inside a continuous stream of geological, economic and technological changes. In the process, computer generated animations with recordings that were made on-site with a microscope camera, are combined with atmospheric soundscapes and sound recordings, also produced in situ by the artist.
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Eva Papamargariti
Eva Papamargariti is an artist, based between Athens and London. She uses a variety of mediums such as moving image, printed material and sculptural installations that explore the relationships of cognitive and affective interaction between the diverse realities that we live in, as well as the dynamic intra – connection and intra – action of events between these two systems. Her work unfolds and dwells in the suspended moment and space where grotesque, fiction and realism collide and an amalgam of various worlds emerges. Papamargariti’s research and practice delves into themes related to the notions of identification and metamorphosis, the idea of simultaneity, the merging and dissolving of our surroundings with the virtual, the mundane, the eerie and the extraordinary.
She is interested in the symbiotic procedures and entanglement that take place between humans, nature and technology. More specifically through video, text, sound, motion capture, AR, CG animations, 3d scans, character creation softwares, sculptures and textiles she explores notions of becoming, liminality, the dialectics of fluidity, techno-romance, transformation, and characteristics of symbiosis between human and non-human agents and the intricate traces and kinships that this entanglement produces.
Furthermore, her practice revolves around processes that are established through our online presence, such as the construction and shifting of our identities, avatars, vernacular language/imagery and worldbuilding. Also the traces that our operations inscribe to the objects and habitat where we find ourselves situated, through our continuous interaction with devices and machinic artifacts.
She has exhibited through solo shows, group shows and screenings in institutions, museums and festivals such as the New Museum (New York), Whitney Museum (New York), Tate Britain (London), MAAT Museum (Lisbon), EMST (Athens), Museum of Moving Image (New York), MoMA PS1 (New York), GAMeC Museum (Bergamo), Pioneer Works (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art Montreal, The Bass (Miami), Athens Biennale( Athens), Biennale Gherdeina, Mediterranean Biennale (San Marino), Thessaloniki Biennale (Thessaloniki), MUTEK, Transmediale Festival (Berlin), MIRA Festival (Madrid), New Now Festival (Zollverein), Ars Electronica (Linz), Liste Art Fair (Basel), Kunstraum Niederostereich (Vienna).
She has been invited as a resident artist at LUMA Foundation in Arles, France (September-December 2023) and at the New Now residency at Zollverein, Germany (February-May 2023)
Her work is featured in public and private collections such as the Dakis Joannou Collection (Deste Foundation), Onassis Foundation, PCAI Collection, MOMuS collection and more.
Activity aligned with Goals 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17
