EXHIBITION OPENING / ΕΓΚΑΙΝΙΑ ΕΚΘΕΣΗΣ
Friday / Παρασκευή
27 September / Σεπτεμβρίου 2024
19:00 – 21:00
OPEN DOORS / ΩΡΕΣ ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑΣ
Saturday / Σάββατο
28 September / Σεπτεμβρίου 2024
11:00 – 19:00
&
Sunday / Κυριακή
29 September / Σεπτεμβρίου 2024
11:00 – 17:00
Zichen Yin’s latest work explores the dynamic interplay between shadow theatre traditions, histories, and the geography of imagination. Her project centres on Karagiozis, the classic figure from Greek shadow theatre. In various versions of his story, Karagiozis is a shape-shifting hero with a thousand faces, yet also faceless – a symbol composed of memories and stories, fluidly drifting between places. He is everything in-between.
For this exhibition, Zichen weaves a new fictional story in which Karagiozis embarks on an epic journey to the East. Employing a combination of painting, installation, and script, this experimental theatre project transforms the gallery space into a composite of temporal and spatial slices from the story, inviting viewers to walk through and experience this reimagined world. This is the thousand and first version of Karagiozis’ story, crafted by an outsider attempting to revisit his legend.
is a Chinese artist, researcher and curator, and as Karagiozis, currently without a fixed base. In her interdisciplinary practice, Zichen interrogates geopolitics and cultural representation. Her works often present a juxtaposition of real and fictional archives, by reading against narration about history and specific topics through ‘critical fabulation’ to establish interconnections between marginalised subjects, retrieving their absent stories.