Nana Sachini
CYCLADIC CAFE ART PROJECT
6 APRIL - 30 MAY 2022
Τhe boundaries between the various media are not distinguished in each work, even when the final result bears the distinctive characteristics of one of them. Body, femininity, gender, sexuality, and identity are always present in various ways. She perceives body-form-existence-political-poetry as one single and indivisible entity, in which, if you slightly push something this creates a disturbance to the rest.
Since 2007, she has been creating compositions using a flatbed scanner. Scans sometimes act as autonomous works, sometimes as quick notes of her thoughts-ideas and sometimes as integral parts in other works. She prints them in various media such as textiles, canvas, paper, plastic, aluminum. The scanner acts in various ways. As a canvas, a composition field, where compositions of objects, sculptures and materials take place on and other times as a small stage, where body parts together with the machine’s light, objects and movement create performances of minimal duration. Scanning captures the moment of creation in a very direct way. A scan lasts almost as a breath (inhale-exhale), as the light passes and “licks” the body and objects. The way light sweeps/caresses the surface of object-bodies highlights various tactile qualities and details of surfaces-skins (human and non-human). Familiar and uncanny, ordinary, and weird objects or/and parts of the body as well as small sculptures of hers are transformed and become transcendental and mysterious with different intentions and associations each time.
ARTWORKS
Nana Sachini, the days before Sirius return to the night sky, 2020
An amorphous piece of bronze – a remnant of a sculpture – and a carved turtle shell with various creatures on surround and interact with the artist’s face. The bronze comes out of the lips that try to bite/support it. A breath of metal, a metal breath. Drops of her breath were recorded on the scanner’s glass. The shell as a weird planet oversees the scene; as an eyeball it comes out/hovers through the vast black darkness of the scanner. Both objects and their materiality have something primitive; fire, organic matter, life but also carry properties of their opposites.
THE ARTIST
Sachini holds a Master and a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK and BA Hons – School of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki, GR. She has presented work in Greece, UK, USA, Germany, Austria, Lebanon and Cyprus. Her work can be found in: D.Daskalopoulos Collection, State Museum of Contemporary Art, F. Kyriakopoulou and other private collections. She is also a founding member of the live-art group “KangarooCourt”. She lives and works in Athens since 2010 and she is the mother of a 5-year-old girl.
CYCLADIC CAFE ART PROJECT
As part of the Contemporary Art Program, the Museum of Cycladic Art presents the Cycladic Café Art Project connecting social spaces with art. Aiming to embrace both the greek and the international contemporary art scene, the Museum presents works by internationally acclaimed and emerging artists, which relate to current Museum exhibitions and activities. The Cycladic Café Art Project stimulates an intimate dialogue bringing art closer to everyday life.
Curated by:
Aphrodite Gonou & Atalanti Martinou
WITH THE SUPPORT
