Past Residents
Past Resident2021: The J.F. Costopoulos Foundation
Stefania Strouza
Stefania Strouza’s practice explores how cultural narratives of diverse epochs connect to produce new identity projects. It examines the spatial mobility of such narratives, the exchange of forms and symbols across large distances, and the cross-cultural syncretisms that emerge from it. The artist materializes these ideas through sculptural works and installations that draw associations between the symbolic world of objects and notions of temporality, geography and the body.
Stefania Strouza has exhibited work at The 3rd Industrial Art Biennial, Croatia; NEON, Greece; and Neue Galerie Innsbruck, Austria, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Artists at Work: Stefania Strouza and Daphne Dragona
September 28, 2021, 1-2pm
Stefania Strouza, 212 Medea (Perpetual Silence Prevails in the Empty Space of Capital), 2020, expanded polystyrene foam, plywood, epoxy resin, varnish, 90 ³⁵/₆₄ × 59 ¹/₁₆ × 47 ¹/₄ (230 × 150 × 120 cm)
Stefania Strouza, 212 Medea (If only I had stayed the animal I was), 2020, metallised cane roots, insulation foam, spray-paint, aluminum foil, pins, 20 ⁵⁵/₆₄ × 13 ²⁵/₆₄ × 15 ²³/₆₄ (53 × 34 × 39 cm)
Stefania Strouza, Pro itu et reditu, 2019, ceramic, bronze, 12 ⁶³/₆₄ × 8 ¹⁷/₆₄ × 4 ²³/₃₂ (33 × 21 × 12 cm)
Stefania Strouza, Fundamentos Líquidos (Liquid Foundations), 2018, bricks, wood, and queen conch shell, 47 ¹/₄ × 78 ⁴⁷/₆₄ × 39 ³/₈ (120 × 200 × 100 cm)
Stefania Strouza, The center will not hold, 2019, plaster, liquid plastic, pewter, and acrylic paint, 106 ¹⁹/₆₄ × 66 ⁵⁹/₆₄ × 3 ¹⁵/₁₆ (270 × 170 × 10 cm)
Residents from Greece
Antonis Pittas
Studio #219
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
Studio #217
Past Resident2021: Artis
Gil Yefman
A trans-disciplinary conceptual artist, Gil Yefman deconstructs and transforms canonized myths from varied beliefs and traditions. By undermining structured definitions and portrayal of the other, Yefman explores and cherishes the intrinsic potential of the extraordinary. Yefman’s collaborative projects fuse memory, trauma and body, with trans-generational multilayered relations where soft materials dissolve hard subject matters. Yefman uses archival materials as points of departure from which the knitting process resembles writing–texts and contexts become textures suggesting alternative interpretations to dogmatic translations.
Gil Yefman has exhibited work at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, France; and Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Japan, among others.
Gil Yefman, TUMTUM, 2013, knitting, Faraday cage, Sound, additional performance. courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York. photo by Casey Dorobek
Gil Yefman, Human Tapestry, 2015, Jacquard weaving, 110 × 138 × 59 in. (279.4 × 350.52 × 149.86 cm)
Gil Yefman, The Valley of Wet Bones, 2015, knitting plastic bags, soil, plants, dimensions variable
Gil Yefman, Hedgerow, 2018, knitting, wool, felt, wire, embroidery thread, and gas pipe, 99 × 276 × 39 in. (251.46 × 701.04 × 99.06 cm)
Gil Yefman, Field Slave, 2018, crochet knitting, dry and wet felting, additional performance, 39 × 79 × 39 in. (99.06 × 200.66 × 99.06 cm)
Residents from Israel
Ariane Loze
Through a methodical deconstruction of cinematic norms, Ariane Loze strips her video-performances down to their most basic, structural inner workings. Her post-minimalist aesthetic brings together conceptual expression and home-made execution underpinned by an immediately recognizable narrative made up of static shots of a straightforward action or event. Since 2008, Loze produces her videos autonomously: she take on the roles of director, screenwriter, editor, dresser, and sound and lighting technician, as well as plays all characters.
Ariane Loze has exhibited work at Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga; S.M.A.K., Ghent; and KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels, among others.
Ariane Loze, Utopia, 2018, HD video projection with sound, 10:27 min
Ariane Loze, Archipelago of Me, 2018, HD video projection with sound, 32:54 min
Ariane Loze, Minimal Art, 2019, HD video projection with sound, 8:25 min
Ariane Loze, Highlands, 2019, HD video projection with sound, 30:18 min
Ariane Loze, Kolumba, 2020, HD video projection with sound, 13:36 min
