Seven international artists participated in the Forum Artists-in-Residency programme, organised in the former military camp, KODRA, within the 7th Visual Arts Festival "Action Field Kodra".

The exhibition of their works called "Dispersion" brings up issues of boundaries in both linguistics and visual art langage.

"The theme of the present exhibition pursues the investigation of borders, an investigation that was also conducted in the two previous Artists-in-Residency Programmes at Action Field Kodra. The theme of limits-borders has been posed from the very beginning as an area of investigation for the meeting and collaboration between institutions and artists in Kalamaria, as well as in the Forum’s wider framework. Along with the general theoretical framework, it practically posed a question on the limits of the European dimension geographically and nationally, and also politically and culturally, which the critics and artists attempted to investigate and redefine. Within the prism of a Dispersion, the exhibition today does not look on either side of a dividing line, nor does it mark the traces of an historical dispersion that surround a distant origin of cultural borders. Neither line nor circle, the exhibition today transposes the notion of limit from an introvert notion of gathering, which is also pinpointed as locus, to a practice of dispersion, wandering, transport, and differentiation. Through this visual gathering it constitutes every unequivocal order, hierarchical form or disciplinary function, be it military, ideological, political, social, cultural or artistic."

Excerpt from Denys Zacharopoulos’ text for the catalogue Action Field KODRA 07
 
Curator: Denys Zacharopoulos, Artistic Director of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (Greece)
Artists: Isabelle Arthuis (Belgium), Christina Calbari (Greece), Guillaume Durand (France), Erwan Maheo (Belgium), Xavier Noiret-Thome (France), Georgios Sourmelis (Greece), Robert Suermondt (Switzerland)

Co-organisers: Forum European Cultural Exchanges and the Cultural Organisation of the Municipality of Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece

In collaboration with: The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, the 1st Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, the French Institute of Thessaloniki.

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