‘’Photo – topographies‘’

The work is presented in the framework of the series EMST New Productions 2011, with commissions by the Museum for its Project Room that are realized with the kind support of Bombay Sapphire gin.

In the installation that Carlos Garaicoa will realize and present for the first time at EMST, he uses photographs as documents for the creation of five polyspam objects. The artist utilizes the idea of the ruins as a permanent element of his work, the fragility of the urban tissue and the impermanence of buildings in particularly complex social contexts, relating it to the Athens's history of urbanism. This work is also a metaphor of the photographic document to new materials, which has been one of the main focuses of his work in the recent years.

Carlos Garaicoa was born in 1967 in Havana. He has realized many international exhibitions and has participated in large artistic organizations, such as Kwanju Biennale, Korea (1997) and Sao Paolo Biennale (2002).

Location : National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Duration : 9/11/2011-8/01/2012
Infromation : www.emst.gr