January 25 - February 22, 2024
From the Carillon Gallery:
“Pavlina Vagioni’s art embraces alchemy. It is informed by multicultural, multilingual diasporas and the timelessness of Greek myths. Pavlina summons Greek mythological creatures, often women, like the Sirens, Nyx, and Medusa, into her paintings, sculptures, and installation work, playing with interactions of color, form, texture, sound, and movement to transmute embodied histories. Pavlina’s work inventively re-interprets symbols and archetypes to reveal their visceral connection to our subconscious selves, linking Cartesian rationalism to our innate spirituality.
‘Gorgon’ presents a new exhibition of never-before-seen works spanning painting, sculpture, and a site-specific installation. The title of the exhibition refers to the three snake-haired monsters of Greek mythology. Medusa, arguably the most famous of the Gorgon sisters, weaves her presence throughout the exhibition. Navigating across a wave-like beach pebble floor installation, visitors journey through a cave-like landscape to explore Medusa’s significance as a prominent figure in Greek mythology and as a metaphor for how contemporary social and cultural attitudes toward fear shape modern life. This dichotomy between fear and the perception of fear is most palpable in a large-scale wall installation combining intertwined snake bodies made from woven diamond hair patterns. Upon closer inspection, each snake’s head is made from a 3D-printed rendering of the artist’s own hands in a snake head formation, rendering them harmless and reminding us that fear is a construct, not an actual threat.”
Reception: January 25, 2024 | 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Carillon Gallery - Tarrant County College South
5301 Campus Dr.
Ft. Worth, 76119 TX
(817) 515-4216
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