Tue 25 May, 2021
We are delighted to invite you to a networking event at Emalin Gallery in collaboration with Young Professionals in the Arts with a viewing of Athena Papadopoulos: The Smurfette.
Refreshments will be provided.
About the exhibition
Utilizing a list of cosmetic, medicinal and edible ingredients, Athena Papadopoulos typically stains layers of cotton bedsheets with red wine, lipstick, hair dyes, Pepto Bismol and self-tanner. Connoting the practice of self-augmentation these intense hues draw attention to how such commodified materials are marketed towards certain consumer archetypes. These archetypes then appear in drawings and photographs of women layered into dense collages: Papadopoulos chemically transfers, cuts, and stitches her own photographs into and alongside imagery gleaned from literature, art history and popular culture.
Read an interview with Athena here.
About Young Professionals in the Arts
Young Professionals in the Arts (YPA), founded in 2009, is a London-based networking group created to foster connections for creative and visual arts professionals. Aimed at those who work in galleries, auction houses and museums, or as writers, independent curators and any other professional capacities within the visual arts (although not artists, students or interns), YPA provides a forum for professional development.