Esto Association is a design studio with an interdisciplinary practice based in Athens.
We bring together design and artistic practices and set up the foundation for dialogues over current issues.
We create research-based work in graphics, objects, and spatial installations, both by commission and self initiative.
We bring together design and artistic practices and set up the foundation for dialogues over current issues.
We create research-based work in graphics, objects, and spatial installations, both by commission and self initiative.
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Ultrasonic infracries
A group show curated by Khares Tokatlidis
Is our social reality actually less brutal and aggressive than the epidemic mental disorders we clinically treat?
The present conceptual group art exhibition explores relations between the symptomatology of manic depression and cultural tactics in contemporary capitalism, from the point of the psyche of the subject in them. It is the diploma thesis of the curator, who studies in The School of Architecture of the Technical University of Crete, and it constitutes their attempt to connect the alienating experience of the disease with the social reality in order to be liberated from it through comprehension.
Τhe experience of manic-depressive spectrum becomes the occasion for a curation that recognizes rampant inductive though loops, suicidal ideations, disputed self-confidence, addictive pleasures in dysphoria in artistic practices of creators who study the current. This is not an exhibition of the 'mentally ill' and argues for a visibility on the aesthetics of thought. The artist’s work here refers to how the subjects internally respond to the contemporary technocratic capitalist situation and negotiate with their identity.
The space of ESTO Association and its individual elements, in dialogue with the artworks and their topology, incorporates the manifestation of the curatorial discourse.
Participating artists:
RUKI I SUPER GONORRHEA and NIKOS GIANNIOS I MILTOS DIGKAS I TØMI aka TOMSCODE I MITIKAFE I ONE SILENCED PUPPET I KHARES TOKATLIDIS
Is our social reality actually less brutal and aggressive than the epidemic mental disorders we clinically treat?
The present conceptual group art exhibition explores relations between the symptomatology of manic depression and cultural tactics in contemporary capitalism, from the point of the psyche of the subject in them. It is the diploma thesis of the curator, who studies in The School of Architecture of the Technical University of Crete, and it constitutes their attempt to connect the alienating experience of the disease with the social reality in order to be liberated from it through comprehension.
Τhe experience of manic-depressive spectrum becomes the occasion for a curation that recognizes rampant inductive though loops, suicidal ideations, disputed self-confidence, addictive pleasures in dysphoria in artistic practices of creators who study the current. This is not an exhibition of the 'mentally ill' and argues for a visibility on the aesthetics of thought. The artist’s work here refers to how the subjects internally respond to the contemporary technocratic capitalist situation and negotiate with their identity.
The space of ESTO Association and its individual elements, in dialogue with the artworks and their topology, incorporates the manifestation of the curatorial discourse.
Participating artists:
RUKI I SUPER GONORRHEA and NIKOS GIANNIOS I MILTOS DIGKAS I TØMI aka TOMSCODE I MITIKAFE I ONE SILENCED PUPPET I KHARES TOKATLIDIS
