Haritini Kyriakou: Rooms

Four bedroom walls is all the necessary space for Franz Kafka in order to turn a man into a large insect for his book “metamorphosis”. Albert Ames can turn anyone into a giant just by readjusting the walls and slightly inclining the floor of a room. A womb creates life in just nine months. In the film “Rear Window”, Alfred Hitchcock sheds light on issues such as feminism, patriarchy and voyeurism, all through a single window.

For her fifth solo show, Haritini Kyriakou, locks her self away from any earthly temptation, using isolation as a means of turning intensity into serenity. That’s the space she creates in order to draw the ones she loves, the ones she falls in love with, when they are bored and when they lose sanity. Pieces of an old relationship or pieces of a new promise. Pieces that compose her. All together a puzzle of her won self. These are the forces driving her back home. In her drawing room she registers, archives and finally redefines her self.

This is the point where purification defines what’s next. The point at which the compact mass of a room with shut windows functions as a new universe. In the same way that the solid impenetrable acrylic paint becomes in tune with the softness and transparency of the pencil lines, the unbending wooden canvas turns into a piece of paper. The alternating speed in between these changes becomes a bridge. A bridge whose edges will be choosing which shores to bring together. This is where painting and the house host switch roles and become one another.

The Garage gallery will host the end outcome. Rooms hanging on its walls. Nothingness becomes the starting point. The future is now clear.

Opening on 6/12 at 19:00

Opening Hours:
Tuesday - Sunday: 17:00-20:00