Greece
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(Athens, 1981)
Iris Touliatou engages in an interdisciplinary practice, composing and decomposing concepts, narratives, objects and bodies through subtle alchemical operations.
In her recent projects, sculptures, wall works and installations combine various techniques and a wide array of organic and inorganic substances – from raw metals to refined vitamins, from blown glass to distilled objects and notes, from laser engraved rubber and thermo printed plastics, to scented emulsions and liquid solutions.
Pointing out the subtle distinctions between natural and artificial, original and copy, living and lifeless, Touliatou’s multimedia practice uses the transformative states of matter, as a metaphor for the enigmatic nature of existence.
Recent exhibitions include Can you wash the Water, Duve Berlin, 2016 (solo); Hypnos Project, Onassis Foundation, Athens 2016 (group); Now/Here, Franz Josefs Kai 3,Vienna, 2016 (group); The world preserves the memory of all past traces, CV COLLECTION, Madrid, 2016 (group); Plato’s Third Eye, Meetfactory, Prague, CZ, 2014 (group); Throw a rock and see what happens, La casa encedida, Madrid, 2013 (group); Matter Enclosed in Heavy Brackets, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, DE, 2012 (solo); This and There, curated by Claude Closky, Fondation Ricard, Paris 2012 (group); and Apollo Goes on Holiday, Palais de Tokyo, 2011 (solo).
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February-March 2017