kart postál

postcards, reading
2021

A collaboration with State of Concept.

What goes on in the mind of someone in exile? Nowadays a picturesque, remote holiday destination, the Greek island of Anafi was once a place where exiles were banished to during during the anti-communist Metaxas regime (1936-1941). In collaboration with State of Concept, I created a set of postcards (in Greek: kárt postal) featuring selected poems speaking to the theme of exile in very different ways. Each poem is accompanied by rearticulated embroidery motifs from Anafi and other Aegean Islands (see also: Tracing Aegean Textiles).

During the Phenomena festival (summer 2021), the postcards could be picked up at local shops and taverns, in order to travel to different geographic and psychological destinations. As a team, we also read the poems out loud at Margerita’s tavern to visitors of the festival.

Photos of the event by Alexandra Masmanidi. Combined with photos of the individual postcards.

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I am a textile artist, researcher, and writer based in Amsterdam. Through my work runs a tangible thread that is spun from questions about materials, hierarchies, traditions, patterns, shapes, and their relations. By means of artistic research, I aim to unravel them and investigate their potential to be interlaced in new ways.

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