Bidirectional Memory
Eugenia Fragkolia
Chrysi Papadaki
Aliki Papadimitriou
Natalia Papadopoulou
Nana Sachini
Kostis Velonis
Eugenia Vereli
CITRONNE Gallery inaugurates a new annual series of group exhibitions titled INTERSECTIONS, bringing together works and artists of different generations and artistic approaches. The first exhibition is titled Bidirectional Memory, a theme that refers to the past as it is revisited, reconsidered, or even reconfigured by the present.
The seven participating artists — Eugenia Fragkolia, Chrysi Papadaki, Aliki Papadimitriou, Natalia Papadopoulou, Nana Sachini, Kostis Velonis, and Eugenia Vereli, share the common narrative foundation in mnemonic material, as encountered in children’s toys, fairy tales, the circus, and Commedia dell’Arte, carrying the notion of magic in its dual nature: an alluring fascination as well as a primordial fear. The interplay between these two tendencies largely shapes the subconscious, which evolves and becomes integrated — transformed in one way or another — into these new artistic suggestions.
The artists engage in an ongoing dialogue composed of complementary voices and expressions unfolding throughout the gallery spaces. Emerging from the inner realms of individual childhood memory, they move along a shared path, reconstructing personal references into a transcendent and complementary symmetry within the present.
