Between You and Me and the Wall

Each one of the ten artists is called to leave their mark on the walls of the gallery, producing site-specific murals. The projects, which are mostly new works, exist in the space as fingerprints, as elements of an environment’s infrastructure, a microcosm of a utopian landscape, a passage. They are topographies of the artists’ personal concerns and feelings and of a collective culture, as they all bare identifiable data: architectural and pictorial elements come together with graphic -linear and geometric- forms. Whether the murals are gazed at independently, or seen as a collective approach towards the subject, the art in the space unfolds before the audience as a reversed landscape (or as smaller, isolated ones). The exhibition’s title, a pun, allows for any narration and interpretation, since it is referential to structure, boundaries and the walls that surround one. The exhibition reminds one of a protest, which having come to an end reveals marks on building walls merely implying the events which previously unfolded in that space. With the end of the exhibition the murals will be wiped away and painted over and the space will return to its primary, void state. The murals will have existed for three weeks in the gallery, and without leaving a trace behind, they will become memories – memories preserving the past. For one to encounter these murals again, the works will have to undergo the (re)production procedure once more