Tanya Bonakdar Gallery announced a thing among things, Kelly Akashi’s solo exhibition and artist residency at ARCH’s Athens. This is ARCH’s inaugural exhibition. Informed by geological and material indexing, the works presented in the show bridge the artist’s ongoing research in transformation and documentation of materials and traditions embedded in the history of Greece. Alongside her use of wax, bronze, stainless steel, and hand-blown glass, traditional Greek materials such as clay, terrazzo, fiber, and marble are utilized in non traditional ways, to index evidence of change. By embracing the language these culturally significant materials bring to her practice, Akashi generates a new hybrid vocabulary, creating an anachronistic landscape that points back to a fragmented figure moving through tactile surroundings. Stemming from her studies in analogue
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