Athena Papadopoulos

In Athena Papadopoulos’ A Diabetic Menagerie, a configuration of legs leans confidently against the wall. A clique of stitched and sutured figures, these dismembered limbs their skins made of bruised wools in pinks, browns and blues have positioned themselves alluringly and self assertively atop a row of tiles. At their heeled feet, the indigestible and destructive objects of their affection and desire accumulate. The gangrenous group is caught waiting, gossiping, contaminating and confiding in each other. Encountering these fragmented characters surrogates of the feminine self, interrogates “looking” as a way of structuring and naturalizing the social dynamics performed by Papadopoulos’ gendered characters.
Angelina Volk

Athena Papadopoulos received her  BFA at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, CA) and completed her MFA at Goldsmiths (London, UK) in 2013. Recent exhibitions include The Smurfette, Emalin, London, UK (2017); Belladonna‘s Muse, curated by Samuel Leuenberger, CURA Basement Roma, Rome, Italy (2017); Wolf Whistles, Shoot the Lobster NY, New York, USA (2016); Streams of Warm Impermanence, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK (2016); Wild Style, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany ( 2016); Bloody Life, Herald St., London, UK (2016); Natural Instincts, Les Urbaines, Lausanne, Switzerland (2015).