Who is who (2025). Ψηφιακό κολάζ σε καμβά, πορομπετόν, ατσάλι, οργάντζα, νήμα. Διαστάσεις μεταβλητές.

”…or Medusa, staring out from the shield of Athina, used as an apotropaic* totem to destroy the bodies of giants and vanquish enemies? (*Use evil to fight evil) Inspired by an actual statue of Athina from the Acropolis museum, Xenia Papadopoulou presents this Athina as a male construction, a stripped-back form of metal, bearing a cloth cloak with gossamer Medusa snakes. A sandstone block proffers a dissapearing footprint in the sand – the artist’s own.

So who is the ruin and what is ruined here? Time and the sea dissapear the imprint of the artist’s body; one female deity uses another’s power to attack and harm. Woman against woman, reading against reading. By deconstructing meaning, are we too freezing the living layer of a narrative? By making art, are we freezing raw creativity and transforming it into solid stone? Medusa’s monumental face stares from the wall nearby, mesmerizing.

There is conflict here, there is tension. Ruins (shipwrecks, old stone statues, ancient myths) reveal and provoke, conceal and evoke still more questions” (απόσπασμα από τον κατάλογο της έκθεσης).

Sara Rosenthal, επιμελήτρια

Το έργο εκτέθηκε στο Argo Annex (Αθήνα, Ιούλιος 2025) ως μέρος του προγράμματος φιλοξενίας καλλιτεχνών: She, Ruins, Everything

Related works: The colour catcher project