Olympia Polymeni : TAΣΣEOGRAΦY

6 Apr-29 Apr 2011

Overview

A new selection of paintings and sculptures in the Greek artist's first solo show in the UK, an unusual twist on the female identity, explored through the art of fortune-telling by patterns of ground coffee. Painting and sculpture become one to form one viscerally provocative presence, as though accidentally evocative of curvy female outlines. The female body becomes a scene for political, social and existential statements, as Polymeni interrogates and subverts the traditional notion of femininity reduced to confinement and “womanly” pastimes like “telling the coffee” in the afternoon just to while away the time.