Dirty Laundry

HyperlinkAthens, Thunder Cage, mcg 21 xoxo, BSMNT, Underground Flower, Galerie AM 180, Harlesden High Street, SUB, PLAGUE, KEIV

Curated by Torre Alain, Gözde Filinta and Marian Luft

At KEIV, Athens

November 04 — 27, 2022

In the anticipated scenario where the earth ends in agony, all systems collapse, and abandoned constructions host hybrid beings, imitation of life prevails because all human emotions are carried successfully by matters of rituals, magic, and heartbroken believers. DIRTY LAUNDRY talks about the exhaustion of the human monarch, filling the earth with its industrial, capitalistic greed and neglect. In a rightful existential desire, recalling mythology and ancient knowledge, to find reconciliation with the present, the artists fasten to the spirits of mother earth, rejecting all the lifeless, numbed, material distractions the majesty is offering. DIRTY LAUNDRY delivers painful wounds and attends to haunted stories of the past; with a faithful devotion to life and its endless creations, it realizes all ends in affection, love.

Curated exhibitions from ten different artist run spaces turn into a transient narrative, becoming a moment of wishful confrontation. DIRTY LAUNDRY has three steps; the first exhibition in the local regions of the off-spaces (1), later be translated into an online show (2), and finally displayed at Keiv, Athens (3). The first sub-show takes place in the location of each off-space, where the artists sense familiarity in physical form. Careful of territorial understandings, DIRTY LAUNDRY engaged firstly with artists’ existing realities in their own locality before bringing them to a foreign land and arrangement. Initial local shows became a resource, and DIRTY LAUNDRY wanted to test how things evolved from translating the art shows into a digital medium and then back to a physical one, questioning the material and immaterial.

Exhibition View
Mcg21xoxo Runurunu - 93
PLAGUE Nikolay Georgiev - Untitled
Mcg21xoxo Runurunu - 93
PLAGUE Christian Roncea - Here is nothing here
PLAGUE Vanya Venmer - Investor (Every morning I died and every evening I was born again. Resurrected)
PLAGUE Vanya Venmer - Investor (Every morning I died and every evening I was born again. Resurrected)
Exhibition View
Undergroundflower Youri Johnson - Black Rose Altar (the revenge of Artemis); Eliska Jahnekova - Eternal Light 1 & 2
Undergroundflower Youri Johnson - Black Rose Altar (the revenge of Artemis)
Undergroundflower Youri Johnson - Black Rose Altar (the revenge of Artemis)
Undergroundflower Eliska Jahnekova - Eternal Light 3
Exhibition View
Undergroundflower Iona Mackenzie - You cursed brat! Look what you’ve done
Undergroundflower Iona Mackenzie - You cursed brat! Look what you’ve done
BSMNT Don Elektro - Forced adopted and forgotten; PLAGUE Arthur Golyakov - Untitled
BSMNT Don Elektro - Forced adopted and forgotten
ThunderCage Borris Arouimi - Missing Medal Youri Johnson - Black Rose Altar (the revenge of Artemis); Eliska Jahnekova - Eternal Light 1 & 2
ThunderCage Matthias Odin - Et je m’ouvre, barrage à la verticale
Exhibition View
ThunderCage Valentin - Kariat
ThunderCage Valentin - Kariat
Exhibition View
PLAGUE Arthur Golyakov - Untitled
PLAGUE Arthur Golyakov - Untitled
BSMNT Don Elektro - me, myself and i-dentity crisis
BSMNT Don Elektro - Oberflächenspannung
Harlesden High Street Amanda Ali - Girls getting into it at Notting Hill Carnival; Andre Morgan - Nutter Outside Killburn M&S; Joe Cool - All Black Starbuck Inglewood; DJ Pooh - Deadly Threat Remix Demo; Andre Morgan - Recording of a MR T cartoon on Adult Swim in 2006 BSMNT Don Elektro - Oberflächenspannung; Me, myself and i-dentity crisis
Exhibition View
PLAGUE Ekaterina Serikova - Laughing in front of the waterfall Galerie A.M.180 - Tamara Antonijević , Jakub Hošek, Nik Timková, Zuzana Žabková w/ bjornsonova - Decreation GNR
Hyperlink Athens Alexandra Koumantaki, vvxii - Untitled
Exhibition View
BSMNT Don Elektro - Control Tower (pov. the gov covers)
BSMNT Don Elektro - Control Tower (pov. the gov covers)
SUB Aslı Demir, Damla Nada, İlayda Tunca, Erden Kahveci, Eren Burhan - Graven Burdens
SUB Aslı Demir, Damla Nada, İlayda Tunca, Erden Kahveci, Eren Burhan - Graven Burdens
PLAGUE Javier Triviño Murillo - I will just dedicate myself to commercial art
BSMNT Don Elektro - Panen et Circenses
BSMNT Don Elektro - Green & Blue & Red Mudfish
BSMNT Don Elektro - Proxima Centauri B Breakfast
ThunderCage Clara Duflot - L‘épopée des Vénus du Mont des neiges
Exhibition View
ThunderCage Celia Bouliteix - Lol lOl o
PLAGUE Leyli Aslanova - Frustrated boys
ThunderCage Charlotte Heninger - Nele
ThunderCage Charlotte Heninger - Nele
ThunderCage Malone - Track ID anyone?
ThunderCage Malone - Track ID anyone?
BSMNT Don Elektro - No New Bars
ThunderCage Clara Duflot - Botticelli pizza
ThunderCage Clara Duflot - Botticelli pizza
Exhibition View
BSMNT Don Elektro - Altered States
Exhibition View
PLAGUE Christophe De Rohan Chabot - Photography from the work “Untitled (cum.red_black)“
KEIV Marios Stamatis, Konstantinos Lianos - MSDL
KEIV Marios Stamatis, Konstantinos Lianos - MSDL
Mcg21xoxo Runurunu - 93
Exhibition View

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