Allyson Glenn, Passages / περάσματα

passage(s) / περάσματα (an exhibition in two parts)

Location: Cultural Foundation of Tinos, Tinos, Cyclades, Greece · June 13 to July 8, 2019

Location: Vorres Museum, Athens, Greece · June 24 to July 14, 2019

Artist: Allyson Glenn · Curator: Caterina Pizanias, PhD

“The exhibition passages / περάσματα takes its point of departure from the gardens at the Vorres Museum in order to reflect on whether Hellenic Antiquity might still resonate now and do so from the perspective of contemporary painting.” Allyson Glenn was the artist for the eponymous 2016 residency at Vorres. The exhibition “suspends time to illustrate and explore how ancient Greek mythology and its assortment of gods, goddesses, and demigods with human lives might play a productive role in helping us with today's continuous social upheavals and our chronic incapacity to overcome them.” Glenn and curator Pizanias examined “crossings and transgressions of borders — disciplinary, interpretive, aesthetic, etc. — in search of sites of resistance that may expand conventional notions of nation, ethnicity, identities, displacement, migration, and more.”