Artist Ioanna Pantazopoulou's first solo show entitled R.E.(Reconfigured Etiquette) is hosted in Ileana Tounta Gallery of Athens few months after her participation in Their Wonderlands group exhibition in Birmingham,UK. Using the basic necessities required for a seating dinner; tables, chairs, glasses, plates and cutlery the structure Ioanna created a large ephemeral sculptural installation suspended from the ceiling.
The dinner accoutrements become undomesticated whilst the chandelier does not offer merely a decorative purpose; it provides support for the structure, it is the armature keeping the sculpture in tact. The furniture is sliced almost as it is food; by dissecting, dividing and reconfiguring Ioanna transforms very practical objects into unworkable; which are reassembled from an imaginary combination. The disambiguation of commodities and objects is an attempt to examine, question and reflect upon the relationship between humanity and the current political state of material excess.
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