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| Maria Glyka I create objects and installations out of cardboard and paper. The transient and fragile nature of the materials I use constantly, keeps my work oscillating between painting and construction. I explore the visual sound of earlier constructions and earlier finished “objects”. I paint on their surfaces. I fold and unfold them, placing emphasis on the creation of associations through this process. I explore the relationships that are born from the uncertainties and diversifications that these folds bear between the limits, without however setting them. I bring together external and internal spaces, playing with the boundaries of reality, a reality that is read in this way again and again, but can never really be seen in its totality. I use hidden elements, secret openings and emerging signs to discover new narratives of non-linear stories. I then photograph or film them, show them and reveal them anew. I thus create series of parallel actions, direct and indirect associations, without predetermined outcomes, in order to determine what does and does not exist, and what is happening in the space between things. Their edges are never clearly defined, their folds do not constitute a metric change, but they themselves become events. I often think of my work as hypothetical situations; as situations that contain as much that which is accepted as reality, as that which seems possible… as spaces that are defined as being stable, unchanging, yet constantly conquered and marked. Maria Glyka  Download CV |  Folds, 2008-2009 |
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