DORA ECONOMOU: GIGANTIC
Dio Horia Gallery's Acropolis Annex is pleased to present the scultural composicion Gigantic by the artist Dora Economou as her solo exhibition in the gallery.
June 13 - July 20, 2024
“I could summarize my artistic practice in two short sentences: I like to travel and to make things with my hands. Mostly to fold papers or fabrics. So, after seeing the modern Atlantic Rainforest on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and the Megalithic Temples of Malta, I returned to the studio in Polydrosso and began kneeling on the floor to open and fold rolls of odule, craft paper and thick white cotton fabric - they call it "Irlanda", the fabric they use for fustanelles.
I have been working a lot for the past few years following youtube tutorials on origami designs and other crafts. So far, I have not been at all concerned with making my own designs.
On the contrary. I am excited by the idea that this design that is not mine, when my hands take over, after I decide the material, the scale and the reference I want to give it, becomes an object very much my own. The garden at Polydrosso is full of these palm fan-like leaves. They remind me of Brazil. Just much smaller.” - Dora Economou
Dora Economou (b. 1974, Athens, Greece) where she lives and works. She is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. She has participated in Residencies and Workshops and has exhibited her work in Greece, Europe, USA and Japan. She has worked as costume and set designer for the theatrical performance group Nova Melancholia and the choreographer Kostas Tsioukas.
Recent solo exhibitions include “East Of The Sun West Of The Moon” 2023, Høstscena, Ålesund (Norway), “Rock Soft” 2023, Akiyoshidai International Art Village (Japan), “Continuity” 2022, Olympia Municipality Music Theatre, Athens, “Sun Rises Sun Sets” 2021, Akwa Ibom, Athens and Shimmer, Rotterdam, “Pangrams and Slogans” 2020, Radio Athènes. Recent group exhibitions include “We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live” curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Callirroe Athens (2023), “Landlord Colors: on Art, Economy, and Materiality” curated by Laura Mott, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan (2019), “Geometries” curated by Locus Athens, Agricultural University of Athens (2018).