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Mary Zygouri Venus of the Rags IN TRANSIT Eleusis

Size
17'
Description
Mary Zigouri uses various means of expression that prevalently involve the performance. Her actions, organized in detail and accurately prepared, usually take place in public places, with unpredictable results and the critical participation of the viewer. Venus of The Rags IN TRANSIT Eleusis is a performance that the artist carried out together with Michelangelo Pistoletto on the occasion of the 2014 Aeschylean Festival. A critical re-reading of the past and of the history of art is one of the main features of Zygouri’s work. The artist renegotiates Michelangelo Pistoletto’s emblematic work Venus of the Rags (1967), materialized in both the wide industrial landscapes of Eleusis, in Greece, and in the urban fabric of her populated community. The desecrated work manages to deal with both the conceptions and the strategies of the performative action, as well as expressing very distinct spatial experiences and preoccupations, aspiring to an imaginary and collectively resistant public space.
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Donated by In Between Art Film
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Video
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