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Curation:Tenia Menegaki
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Opening:03 November 2024
Following her recent presentation in New York, Stella Kapezanou is coming to Thessaloniki. The renowned artist is signing the visual identity of the 65th Thessaloniki Film Festival with her work ‘Corn Maidens,’ which engages with this year’s central theme, ‘We, the Monster.’
In light of Kapezanou's participation in this year's festival, Apodec - micro exhibitions will host the pop-up exhibition ‘Naughty Miniatures.’ The central piece will be ‘The Fisherman’s Wife,’ surrounded by naughty girls, black cats, prickly pears with breasts, phallic lilies, and other small works that highlight Kapezanou’s strength and aesthetics, blending vibrant colors with impressive detail.
The exhibition maintains a strong feminist character as the artist, for the first time, captures the complexity of female experience through small-scale works, or ‘naughty miniatures’ as she calls them. These pieces combine representation with abstraction and symbolism with imaginative compositions. Occasionally, animals appear unexpectedly among human forms, adding depth and complexity to the narrative, while a series of works features titles inspired by the poetry collection “Edepsidika” by George Seferis.*
Through her work, Kapezanou raises questions about the conventions of representational painting, with her art representing an ongoing exploration of the female world, filled with dynamism and provocation.