ALL OUR HORSES

Excavated, Removed I
Digital designs 135x225cm each, print on TIFF
*based on scanned trace papers*

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ALL OUR HORSES, Duo Show

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“….The exhibition ALL OUR HORSES, derives from Marilena Georgantzi’s homonymous text and is the material expression of her conversation with Nagore Chivite within the space. Watercolours on paper, prints on paper, prints on textiles and sculptural forms revolve around words, opening slits and passages through space, stitches that map mnemonic traces, psychic paths and imprints around the absence of Horses, interrogating the absence of our animal nature. Where did the instinct go?
They open windows in empty spaces, lest they see the horses pass by. They play with the hero motif in fairy tales, the journey of searching, of adventure and doubt, of reconciliation with Absence, and loss, of the safety of what is familiar…”

Excerpt from the curatorial note

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Duo Show with Nagore Chivite curated by Isavella Kladaki

Cypher Space, Athens

supported by Goethe Institut through Culture Moves Europe

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11/12 2024 – 05/01 2025

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Excavated, Removed II & III
Digital designs 135x225cm each
based on scanned trace papers

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“…The need for freedom and the acceptance of a world being torn down to build a new one. They leave marks, small traces in the corners of space, weaving paths across uncharted expanses of material, inviting us to search for the footprints of horse hooves in muddy valleys until we connect with the wild femininities of our cellular memory, searching within ourselves for pieces forcibly detached or silenced, patiently waiting to be unearthed and made ours again.
Bits and pieces, life-giving parts, life-giving limbs that might be frightening, molds of what is called to reveal itself to us, fragmented horses, their parts detached from the whole that – always – exists and waits to be reconstituted. Personal histories and references, intertwined with the mythological and the archetypal, inviting us to unravel them, exploring and tracing our own path, negotiating our relationship both conceptually and materially with them…”

Excerpt from the curatorial note

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My feet — I think I’ll keep my feet. I like how they stand on my straight line. (II), 70x100cm
Linocut Monotype, various textiles, cotton & synthetic cords, detail

My feet — I think I’ll keep my feet. I like how they stand on my straight line. (I), 80x120cm
Linocut Monotype, various textiles, cotton & synthetic cords

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Monotype (1) & (2) by Marilena Goergantzi, Watercolor Drawing Nagore Chivite

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My feet — I think I’ll keep my feet. I like how they stand on my straight line. (III), 100x70cm
Linocut Monotype, various textiles, cotton & synthetic cords

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excerpt from “All our Horses” monologue by Marilena Georgantzi, on a video loop

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Excavated, Removed I
Digital designs 135x225cm each, print on TIFF
*based on scanned trace papers*, SOLACE group exhibition, MARCH 2025

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View of ALL OUR HORSES, duo show