Marianne Strapatsakis
The Ghosts of the Mediterranean or Reflections of the Past
Curated by: Maria Marangou
On Monday July 2020, a video installation created by Marianne Strapatsakis entitled “The Ghosts of the Mediterranean or the Reflections of the Past”, curated by Maria Marangou, will be hosted at Giali Tzamisi (Venetian Port) in Chania.
The aforementioned exhibition is occasioned by the restart of the artistic activity of the Municipal Art Gallery of Chania and is co-organized by the Municipal Port Fund of Chania and the Contemporary Art Museum of Crete (Rethymnon).
Strapatsakis’ video installation, lavishly lent by the Contemporary Art Museum of Crete to the Municipal Art Gallery of Chania, was firstly created in 1990. Ever since, the exhibition was hosted by important archaeological sites around Greece as well as by some of the most visited museums worldwide, where it was given numerous awards. Since 2014, it is permanently installed at the Contemporary Art Museum of Crete in Rethymon, courtesy of its creator.
This artwork mainly refers to the temple of Athena Aphaia as well as to the sea landscape of the Mediterranean. It revokes all powerful links that connect our past -as a nation- with our present and future, while the timeless meaning of the memory comes to seal the place at this particular moment. Both Cretan and the Mediterranean Sea are threatened because of nuclear waste and the plastic we use in our everyday lives.
With the Water being its core element referred to creation, the aforementioned video installation forms the first part of the trilogy entitled “Birth-Life-Death”. Through different means and materials and with the use of technology, the visual artist succeeds in “capturing” time’s fourth dimension; she manages to present vibrating images as memories of the unconscious mind both at a personal and collective level while giving substance to her own personal “ghosts”.
The exhibition will run from July 20th until August 20th 2020.
On Monday July 20th 2020, the exhibition’s opening will take place as an all-day event organized by the Municipal Art Gallery of Chania at Giali Tzamisi (Venetian Port) from 19.00 pm to 22.00 pm.
Opening hours:
Giali Tzamisi, Venetian Port, Chania
Monday to Sunday 19:00 – 23:00
Free admission
For further information, please contact us:
Municipal Art Gallery of Chania
Tel. +30 28210 92294
www.pinakothiki-chania.gr
