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EXHIBITION
07.03.25 – 10.06.25
SEEDING CIRCLES
AIKATERINI GEGISIAN

Curated by Ivana Marjanović

Opening as part of the “8th of March” events*, the exhibition Seeding Circles
offers a retrospective look at the Greek-Armenian diasporic artist Aikaterini
Gegisian, who works between Thessaloniki and London. The exhibition
weaves together reimagined and re-collaged older works with new commissions inspired by Gegisian’s experience of returning to agricultural practices. Seeding Circles consists of evocative collages in the form of images, textiles and humorous videos. The artist works with collage
as a feminist method that aims to redistribute power relations. In this
process, Gegisian goes back to the archives of popular culture and mass
media from the 1960s to 1990s. She invites us to rethink and reimagine
the past as she develops new imagery for the future as a world-making
practice marked by emotional joy and visual pleasure. Seeding Circles is
about “small things” like gardening, vernacular practices and decorative
arts that play equally important roles in the circles of life, nature and art
that are all the focus of Gegisian’s analytical and sensual art. The exhibition
is conceived through the agricultural narrative of a garden.

*Quotation: Aikaterini Gegisian, Non-Aligned Forms, in LEAP. The International Art Magazine of Contemporary China, June 2017, p 126-129.
All other quotes are from unpublished texts by the author.