Saturday 2 April, 4-9pm at SECCMA Trust, Likomidon 13, Athens GR
SECCMA Trade: Details of Love | Exhibition
Curated by Kostas Stasinopoulos
MY BATMAN still from frame 16mm colour film, dimensions (width x height): 72 cm x 52 cm by filmmaker and Døcumatism member Menelaos Karamaghiolis for the ongoing project ROMnet
The work MY BATMAN is presented in the exhibition SECCMA TRADE: Details of Love, curated by Kostas Stasinopoulos as part of SECCMA Trade, in support of Emantes International LGBTQIA+ Solidarity, a charitable social cooperative enterprise providing psychosocial support to LGBTQIA+ refugees and migrants.
The work was created from the photographic archive of the ongoing project ROMnet by the Døcumatism collective, which originated from the film ROM. A substantial part of the film was shot on photographic film, which was subsequently transformed into 16mm motion picture film.
Curator Kostas Stasinopoulos conceived the exhibition with the aim of supporting Emantes International LGBTQIA+ Solidarity through the sale of the participating works. Within the photographic archive of Menelaos Karamaghiolis’s film ROM, he discovered a single frame capable of functioning as an autonomous artwork, conveying a clear message of solidarity with the members of the Emantes International LGBTQIA+ Solidarity.
SECCMA Trade is an initiative of SERAPIS & SECCMA Trust that expresses a vision of synergy and community through art projects based on exchange and support. It forms a network or a hub port of collaboration in order to establish a method of ever-expanding openness.
Group Exhibition:
“When was the last time that you inadvertently broke out a little smile? Or felt warm inside, albeit fleetingly? Or your body and mind were moved, even if just by a tiny bit? When was the last time that you observed or obsessed with a fragment that points somewhere else but is so powerful in and of itself? Anxious about its sweeping force, we often forget the love that is in the details. Unruly, ungovernable, radical, delirious, transformative love inhabits everything that it is part of, no matter how small. These fragments, details of an ever expansive, changing cosmic flow, once released and observed, are capable of raising waves. Beyond the categories of the human, beyond attempts to define or control it, love is a catalyst of change, perhaps the most powerful. Its pieces, like transgressive undercurrents, set the pace, they track the movement, like the bass hitting the body allowing for the melody to travel, change and express itself.
The artists who are part of this initiative are asked to send their details of love, to share a piece that perhaps has been operating alone somewhere, which, once in focus, can emanate new light and foster new connections, by becoming part of a networked expression of love in all its forms, registers and channels.
Moving like vessels in the sea, details of love produce waves that can travel its expanse until the shore feels their impact, big or small. Aware of the depths of the world beneath them and of its currents, they precipitate like foam that fleetingly marks its vast, fluid surface. The inaugural SECCMA Trade, curated by Kostas Stasinopoulos, looks at the details of community, solidarity, collectivity and of loving. Details of Love forms a collection of different things that are important to those who love and a connection across shared principles that have allowed their existence.”
Kostas Stasinopoulos
SECCMA Trade: Details of Love, a group exhibition with works by Chioma Ebinama, Adham Faramawy, Menelaos Karamaghiolis, Pennie Key, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Karolina Krassouli, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Spyros Rennt, Giles Round, Sin Wai Kin, Himali Singh Soin, P. Staff, Bones Tan Jones, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen.
