2023 – georgia sagri

Kyiv Biennial 2023

at Augarten Contemporary, Vienna (17/10–17/12/23)

The fifth edition of Kyiv Biennial is conceived as a European event, with dispersed exhibitions and public programs in a number of Ukrainian and EU cities, and realized in partnership with leading European institutions in the field of contemporary art. Georgia Sagri participates in the main exhibition of Kyiv Biennial 2023, with two performance pieces, Deep Listening (2001) and Breathing 7_1_7 with Embryac Position / Sunset which will perform on the opening day of the Biennial as well as with the work Deep Cut which will be installed in the main exhibition venue.

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Georgia Sagri, Breathing 7_1_7 with Embryac Position / Sunset, 2023, Kyiv Biennial 2023, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Photo by eSeL.at - Joanna Pianka ©Georgia Sagri

Kyiv Biennial 2023, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, photo by eSeL.at - Joanna Pianka

Georgia Sagri, Breathing 7_1_7 with Embryac Position / Sunset, 2023, Kyiv Biennial 2023, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Photo by eSeL.at - Joanna Pianka ©Georgia Sagri

Georgia Sagri, Breathing 7_1_7 with Embryac Position / Sunset, 2023, Kyiv Biennial 2023, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, photo by eSeL.at - Joanna Pianka ©Georgia Sagri

Georgia Sagri, Deep Listening (2001), 2023, Kyiv Biennial 2023, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Photo by eSeL.at - Joanna Pianka ©Georgia Sagri

ArtBasel – Parcours

at Basel (12&13/7/23)

Georgia Sagri’s Deep Cut adds a hyper-realistic open wound to a building. The cut facade bleeds in silent, outside of our reach, and implies an embodiment of the architecture. The work invites its viewers to contemplate on the nature of healing and self care as well as raising the question of whose wound we are looking at. Is it the building that's hurt or the artist or even ourselves? Is it self-inflicted or the result of a conflict? Will the wound leave a scar? Deep Cut aestheticizes the process of the infliction and subsequent healing of a wound, a process of profound meaning, because it marks the rupture of life and the hope for its return to a stable state. It is the wound of a divided society, a break in the tissue that holds us together, and its socio-political aspects surpass everyday facts and exposes us to uncertainty. Being confronted with the bleeding cut invokes feelings of receiving an injury, even though neither its dimensions nor its place are within the realm of reality. Certainly the scale of the work justifies our shared feelings of empathy.

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Georgia Sagri, Deep Cut (2018) Installation view, ArtBasel, Basel 2023© Georgia Sagri

Georgia Sagri, Deep Cut, 2018, Laserprint on 3M vinyl sticker, © Georgia Sagri

Georgia Sagri, Deep Cut (2018) Installation view, ArtBasel, Basel 2023© Georgia Sagri

UNEGO

at Ulrik, New York (4/2-25/3/23)

Pigments

Pigments of tone. Blood is not a fuel. Although registered as fuel. She says that we become mechanized and turn ourselves into tools of order, executing what we are supposed to as identities and individuals. Here, I want to go all the way through tuning. Participation of the beetroot. Of the cherry. Of the planet. Tuning as a reciprocal force. Blood is tuning.

Affective Anatomies

The act of painting is a way to record the process of touch. Performance is a hybrid medium.

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UNEGO, installation view, Ulrik, New York ©Georgia Sagri

An entry on art/architecture in the public sphere

at the Department of Architecture, University of Patras (14/3/23)

Lecture:

''Performance Pathologies – Sanative Rhythmologies''

In the context of the Visual Arts courses of the Department of Architecture

Oikonomia

at The Breeder, Athens (12/1-4/2/23)

For her solo exhibition Oikonomia at the Breeder, IASI (recovery) is practiced onto her own works. Sagri narrows her attention on the reorganization of practices, materials and objects that have been produced and presented in the past -that share common qualities: most were damaged and retrieved from the art circulation, reaching a state of vanishing. Some were damaged while being exhibited, others by being used in performance works or being displayed in public space or were destroyed due to mistreatment, during deinstallation and transportation.

The exhibition includes three performances, which are also currently in a state of invisibility, because they were never documented. Part of their recovery is the search for testimonies and archival fragments, on the basis of which the artist reconstructs the performances, remembers them and mnemonically re-enacts them.

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Georgia Sagri, Installation View, Oikonomia, 2023. Courtesy the Artist and The Breeder Athens. Photo by Athanassios Gatos. Copyright Georgia Sagri

Georgia Sagri, Ενοίκιο / Rent (2009), 2023, HD video with sound, looped, 60 min. Courtesy the Artist and The Breeder Athens. Photo by Athanassios Gatos. Copyright Georgia Sagri

Georgia Sagri, Παρτιτούρες Αναπνοής / Breathing Scores (2017), 2023, blown glass, steel, metallic components, wood, 175 x 80 x 60 cm.Georgia Sagri, Τοπίο με το Διογένη / Landscape with Diogenes (2012), 2023, ink on handmade paper, wooden frame, 80 x 40 cm.

Georgia Sagri, Παρτιτούρες Αναπνοής / Breathing Scores (2017), 2023, ink on handmade paper, wooden frame, 80 x 40 cm.

Georgia Sagri, Τοπίο με το Διογένη / Landscape with Diogenes (2012), 2023, ink on handmade paper, wooden frame, 80 x 40 cm. Courtesy the Artist and The Breeder Athens. Photo by Athanassios Gatos. Copyright Georgia Sagri

Georgia Sagri, Installation View, Oikonomia, 2023. Courtesy the Artist and The Breeder Athens. Photo by Athanassios Gatos. Copyright Georgia Sagri