Georgia Sagri
Georgia Sagri is an artist and activist. She is one of the founding members of Occupy Wall Street in New York. Her research practice IASI (Recovery) was launched in January 2020, at Mimosa House in London and since then it was supported by Tavros in Athens, De Appel in Amsterdam (2021) and Gropius Bau in Berlin (2022). Sagri has exhibited internationally in distinguished museums and institutions such as: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino (2023); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022); Gropius Bau, Berlin (2022); Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg (2022); De Appel, Amsterdam (2020); TAVROS, Athens (2020); Mimosa House, London (2020); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2020); Portikus, Frankfurt (2018), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2017, 2018), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2019, 2020), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2020, 2014), Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (2017), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2016, 2013), Sculpture Center, New York (2016), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2016, 2015), Forde, Geneva (2015), MoMA PS1, New York (2013), Guggenheim, Bilbao (2011), MoMA, New York (2011), Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2011), DESTE Foundation, Athens (2006). She has participated in documenta 14 (2017), Manifesta 11 (2016), Istanbul Biennial (2015), Lyon Biennale (2013), Whitney Biennial, New York (2012), Thessaloniki Biennale (2011) and Athens Biennale (2007). Sternberg Press published her first monograph on the occasion of her solo shows “Georgia Sagri Georgia Sagri” at the Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2017, 2018) and “Georgia Sagri and I” at the Portikus, Frankfurt (2018). She has founded Ύλη [matter] HYLE, a semi-public / semi-private space in downtown Athens (2014-present). Georgia Sagri holds a tenure position in Performance at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her book Stage of Recovery was published by Divided Publishing in the spring of 2021. Georgia Sagri is represented by Central Fine, Miami and The Breeder, Athens.
Deep Cut
2018,
Laser print on 3M vinyl sticker
Deep Cut depicts a hyper-realistic, oversized representation of a cut oozing blood. Is the bleeding cut on the artist’s body or are the walls bleeding? Does the work imply the audience is hurt, maybe also the city or the whole country? Could it be the result of the pandemic, the economic crisis or some recent war, or does it derive from the mere fact of our existence? How deep is the cut? Can it ever be completely cured, or does it leave its mark forever? The means we use to take care of our cut and its unstaunchable bleeding, along with the ways we recover from its repetitive and unsurpassed state might be held to define our present and our future. The sheer size of Deep Cut and its manifold socio-political dimensions surpass everyday facts and expose us to an uncertain tomorrow. Deep Cut is the rupture in the tissue; it is the wound of nature, its silent mourning. A divided society’s wound might also be considered as cutting through something superficially connected and seemingly unbreakable. In that sense, it reveals the chaotic gap, be it spiritual or existential, realistic or cultural, that defines contemporary societies. On the night of the opening (October 17, 2023), Georgia Sagri will perform Deep Listening 2001 and Breathing 7_1_7 with Embryac Position / Sunset 2020.
Augarten Contemporary, hoast, IG Architektur, Laurenz, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Never At Home, Waffen Franz Kapfer, New Jörg, Ve.Sch
October 17–December 17
Main Exhibition
Curators: Serge Klymko, Hedwig Saxenhuber and Georg Schöllhammer
A. Title: Breathing (7-1-7) with embryac position/ Windface [Sunset] Year: 2020 Medium: Performance Duration: app. 60' Date: 24 October 2020 Photo by: Vasilis Papgeorgiou Location: De Appel Copyright Georgia Sagri/Courtesy of the artist and De Appel, Amsterdam B. Title: Deep Listening (2001) Year: 2023 Medium: Performance Duration: app. 60' Date: 21 January 2023 Photo: Video still © Georgia Sagri Location: The Breeder Copyright Georgia Sagri/Courtesy of the artist and The Breeder, Athens