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  The exhibition LESS documents the huge space given to the question of living in artistic research in recent decades and the different approaches adopted by some artists of international fame. They have investigated this subject for some time now, moving between micro-architecture and macro-design and trying to imagine a different and more sustainable future by designing new ways of living. By changing into builders and symbolically designing the world of tomorrow, these artists express above all a need for strategies and challenging designs for collective development. Space to live in is both a basic necessity and also a catalyst for needs and desires. That is why the subjects of the home and of living occupy ample space in the research of contemporary artistic research and constitute privileged fields of thought for many artists who seek to critically address the complexity of our society down to its most crucial and urgent needs. These subjects allow them to express the profound contradictions and fundamental aspirations of the present, the current tension between a sense of belonging and a sense of being on the outside, between the need to re-appropriate and the need to safeguard differences. Numerous artists thus create housing models in which sense and function are not separated. They are either temporary or permanent, private or public situations. In many cases they are flexible, multi-functional spaces with a variable structure suited to mobile and even crisis or emergency situations.
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| Maria Papadimitriou was born in Athens (Greece) in 1957. She teaches at the Dept. of Architecture, University of Thessaly. She is the founder of TAMA (Temporary Autonomous Museum for All). postmedia.net |
