Eva Stefani: The Luminous Cave
The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens is celebrating women's art this season with a series of group and solo exhibitions honouring pioneering female artists.
Acclaimed Greek filmmaker Eva Stefani frequently visits places like hospitals, public institutions and offices and gathers discarded documents such as old legal and accounting documents, affidavits, bank transactions, medical test results, and even X-rays. The reason? It’s her way of piecing together Greek history, especially when it comes to the period after the Nazi Occupation and the Civil War. She uses the same method to uncover her family’s history, regularly going through the family storage room for old documents.
In her new installation, The Luminous Cave, Stefani (who represented Greece in the Venice Biennale 2019) draws inspiration from her family history and her personal experience of hospitalisation to create an experiential space for reflection on the way we remember history and the human stories behind it. Like a modern take on Plato’s allegory of the cave, it’s a study on not forgetting our past, even when our focus is on the present and future. Enter when ready.
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Price: €8, €4
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Time: Tuesday - Wednesday & Friday - Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm, Thursday 11 am - 10 pm
- National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST), Kallirois Ave. & Amvr. Frantzis Street, Koukaki, 117 43
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Wheelchair Accessible
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