ELEONAS by
@inesdifolcojemni @chamlavant and
@winniemorielly opens this Thursday April 30th from 8pm 🪞🗝️🪆🔑 Performance at 9pm
ELEONAS brings together the works of Inès Di Folco Jemni, Cham Lavant and Winnie Mo Rielly in an exhibition born from a physical place and an affective territory: a vast flea market on the outskirts of Athens, at the edge of the city, of memory and of time. Visited each week by a dense crowd of families, traders, tourists and everyday treasures, the Eleonas market has been run for several generations of Athens’ Romani community. It is an organic, living space, aggregating objects from Europe and the Mediterranean like a continuous wave.
The exhibition ELEONAS will travel between two sister cities that share a political, social and symbolic geography: Athens and Marseille. Two Mediterranean ports, crossed by ancient and contemporary human circulations, two border-cities marked by the tensions of tourism, post-colonialism and popular culture.
ELEONAS will take place in both contexts, first at Alkinois and then at Sissi Club
@sissi.club (Nov - Jan) in Marseille. It thus carries a living memory between the two shores, linking two independent venues that each in their own way defend an art rooted in the shifting realities of their territory.
With the support of ADAGP and the French Institute of Greece.