KATERINA ZACHAROPOULOU
October 12 - November 17, 2000
Katerina Zacharopoulou was born in Athens. She studied painting in
Athens and attended pedagogical programs on contemporary art in
Paris (Centre Georges Pompidou). She organised and presented
television programs on the National Television (ET1 & NET) and
Seven-X channel. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows in
Athens, Thessaloniki and Chicago.
Katerina Zacharopoulou deals with and comments on the relation
between women and their archetypal desires for love, marriage,
maternity, beauty, their quest for Fortune, their use of fetish images.
Through the opposition of strong desires such as the need for
reproduction and their freedom, women still experience traditional
roles without wishing to abandon their feminine nature being fully
aware of their loneliness which comes along with the protection by the
institutions.
The work of Katerina Zacharopoulou revolves around the way that
women carry within their body the transient symbol of a life that
follows or that has preceded. Three women are being recorded
through the camera and are being photographed in a relationship of
gestures, whispers, solidarity or complicity. They are being multiplied,
divided, staged in front of the lens, exposed to Time, the Present, the
Fortune, to the coming or passed Experience.
A group of bridal paper shoes represents female characters. Objects
for walking or escaping the woman’s shoes remain still, motionless
incapable of leading anywhere else except the feet for which they
were made.
Bad-tempered, uncomfortable, aggressive, tired, erotic, vulnerable, or
tender the bridal shoes are becoming reference points of women’s
behaviour.
«Dream-papers» with their interpretations considered as «dowry»
express their fears and desires the same way as the narrations after
an intense dream brings relief to the tension it has created.
A Fortune pack of cards, a kind of Tarot made out of 37 cards, with
scenes and representations of the love life and the preparation of the
wedding defines the «Fortune Table».
The video was filmed at the photographic studio of Thanasis
Tamvakides.
The video was processed by Makis Faros.
The exhibition is supported by
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