Persefoni Myrtsou & Eva Giannakopoulou, The Brides of Maltepe / 2nd episode
Photo by Paris Tavitian

Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents 

with Larry Achiampong, Meriç Algün, James Bridle, Hera Büyüktaşçiyan, Jeremy Hutchison, KERNEL, Chysanthi Koumianaki, Persefoni Myrtsou & Eva Giannakopoulou, Lara Ögel, Maria Papadimitriou e Lloyd Corporation.
Fondazione Prada & Qatar Museums 
Various locations in Exarcheia, Athens 
17.06 - 22.07.2017 

Exhibition catalogue by Chysanthi Koumianaki

Currents flow along their
own course, enclosing and enfolding everythingthey encounter, in flux and following a route. Bodies entangled in the current find themselves carried away, devoid of self-agency. Who is actively defining the direction of the current, and who is passively drifting along its course?

Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents explores the movement of people, the circulation of capital, and how these endless flows of motion are organised, systematised, controlled and contested. Today this system seems to be characterised by the disparity between the encouragement of free-flowing capital, goods, resources and other lifeless forces, and the rigid boundaries or restrictions imposed on flows of people.

Lara Ögel, houses were rooms, i had forgotten (variation II)
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Hera Büyüktaşciyan, Gravity of Elevation
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Maria Papadimitriou, Travail au noir
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Jeremy Hutchison, Movables
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James Bridle, Cheaper by the dozen
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Lloyd Corporation, Mobile City
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Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Traffic Red, Traffic Yellow, Signal Blue:
A conversation between a Curator, an Artist and a Dancer
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Meriç Algün, Promotion Europe
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Larry Achiampong, Untitled (sound installation)
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KERNEL, Water Sleeps 
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