Eleni Kamma

Play it Emin Walking alond the Russian monument at Ayastefanos
In her books, drawings, videos and installations, Kamma investigates possibilities for a future architecture that rejects binary oppositional systems of thought and accepts, rather than tolerates, “other” positions. Her interest lies in narrative representations of transformation and her practice is informed by the inherent gaps and contradictions within existing cultural narratives and structures. These gaps or contradictions concern issues of memory, authenticity and identity. They often take the form of real objects or stories that are constituted as stereotypes through omission of their actual history. By revisiting systems of classification and strategies of description and taxonomy, Kamma examines the relation of the cliché, the banal and the stereotype, to the formation of history and the production of meaning. Through her work, two things unfold at the same time; a direct exploration of the spatial in-between through reflection on space itself, but also the “appearance” of an object that suggests an in-between space. Her most recent body of work calls into question the formation, distribution and division of knowledge and experience.














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