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Artist Talk with Jenny Marketou and screening of her film Rivering (2022)
November 27, 2022 @ 16:00 - 18:00
Artist Talk with Jenny Marketou and screening of her film Rivering (2022)
Sunday, November 27th from 16:00 – 18:00 PM
At: One Minute Space, Athens
No prior registration required
Join us this Sunday, November 27th from 4 to 6 PM for a talk by New York based artist Jenny Marketou followed by a screening of her film Rivering (2022). The talk will center on Marketou’s multidimensional practice and will focus on her projects currently on view in New York, Athens and Vienna.
Marketou’s recent body of work considers the ever-evolving relations between climates, rivers and waterbodies. In her process, she engages with oysters, water and sand as entangled ecosystems and “actants” (Bruno Latour), indicating their active power as materials and their capacity to intervene upon our shared ecological and historical trajectories. The artist will discuss her research into more-than-human worlds, indigenous storytelling and oysters as precious coastal resources.
The talk is informed by the artist’s immersive research-based artistic practice spanning over three years as an artist in residence with The Billion Oyster Project, The Harbor School and Swale Lab on Governors Island in New York.
The event is organized in the framework of Folk Fiction, a group exhibition curated by Ariana Kalliga, on view at One Minute Space from November 19th through December 22nd, 2022.
About the Artist
Jenny Marketou (b. 1954, Athens) was born and raised in Athens, Greece and is based in New York. She is an Adjunct Professor at New School for Social Research in NY where she teaches New Media Art and Public Engagement and holds an M.F.A from Pratt Institute of Art. Marketou’s work has been widely exhibited and collected in major museums and cultural institutions, including The School of Water, Biennial de Mediterranean 19, San Marino (2021); Parliament of Bodies, Documenta 14, Athens/Kassel (2017), as well as Manifesta, European Biennial; Biennial of Seville, Spain; Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil; Biennial de Cartagena, Colombia; ZKM Center for Media Arts, Karlsruhe; Museum Tinguely, Basel; Kumu Art Museum, Estonia; The High Line, New York; Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid; Queens Museum, New York, The New Museum, New York, The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens. Her recent multifaceted project titled Serious Games (2021) was presented at Kucuk Hasan Mosque better known as Yiali Tzami commissioned by the Municipal Art Gallery in Chania, Crete. Marketou has received numerous awards, including the CITI Arts Corps Grants, NY (2021) and the Greek Ministry of Culture Awards (2022) for her project Serious Games at Kucuk Hasan Mosque known as Yiali Tzami commissioned in Chania, Crete. Her works have been highlighted in The New York Times and Flash Art, The Art Newspaper, n.paradoxa international feminist art journal, volume #14, among others.