MARIA NYMFIADI

Group project, performance and sound/video artwork

Visibility was a project initiated by the artist Maria Paschalidou. A group of 10 artists prepared an artwork based on the theme of visibility related explicitly to the neighbourhood of Attiki Square in Athens. This area is overpopulated with many refugees from many different countries, bringing a unique mixture of cultures and customs.

Each one of the artists prepared an artwork to be included in a DVD. In this area, a street market takes place every Saturday morning, and there we set up a bench with the DVDs on Saturday 29/09/2007. The performance event that took place that day was an exchange. We gave them a DVD, and in return, they gave us anything they wanted: vegetables, newspapers, small gifts, books, toys, bricks, tickets, light bulbs, flowers, paintings and drawings, etc. 

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When the market finished, we moved the entire bench to a gallery space and exhibited it, the artwork, and the performance documentation presented on screens.

I participated in this project with the piece Eye Test, a sound and video work. Rania Hesham read in Arabic a text I wrote and the video image was a blank white screen. The text was about vision and a child's wish to wear glasses, although she could see well.

Curator, concept, project coordination: Maria Paschalidou

Performance in Attiki Square Street Market 29/09/2007. Exhibition at Cheap Art Gallery, Athens 29/09 -1/10/ 2007

Reading: Rania Hassan

Translation to Arabic: Hesham Hassan

Translation to English: Eleftheria Tsitsa

Sound engineering: Nikos Gogos

Video editing: Lea Petrou