My love for variations and for a diversity of terms for a single phenomenon. The multiplicity of focuses. Bringing distant things closer without indicating the intermediate links.
- Mikhail Bakhtin
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Marysia Paruzel (*1993, Warsaw, Poland). Lives and works in New York. She studied at the Städelschule Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt, and Knust, Kumasi,
Ghana. Selected exhibitions include: Telepathy Curating presents: Teases and Synthesis; Empty Threats, Vienna Love and Anxiety Reality Paradoxes (curated by Kristoffer Cezinando Karlsen and Josef Strau) City Galerie Wien and Layr, Vienna (2025); Svetlana, Can, Vienna; How To Make It In America, Jenny’s & Emberly Furniture, New York (2024); Human Bites, 4649 and Galerie Tenko Presents, Tokyo, Japan; Flâneuse, Gaylord Fine Arts, Los Angeles (2022); 2B3Btender, Le Bourgeois, London (2019); Rose is a rose, Piktogram, Warsaw (2015).
Marietta Mavrokordatou (*1996, Nicosia, Cyprus), lives and works in London and Athens. She studied at the Camberwell College of Arts, and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Recent exhibitions include: Repeatedly failing to align with light, Camera Austria, Graz (curated by Leon Hösl and Magdalena Stöger); In a Bright Green Field, Benaki Museum, Athens (curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari); 11Parthenon, Nicosia (curated by Andre Zivanari and Haris Epameinonda); Sudden arrest between two movements, Final Hot Desert, London (2025); Image as Trace, Brunette Coleman; GIRL, Brunette Coleman, London; TOUR LIFE, Radio Athènes, Athens; THE ALREADY PICTURES, Akwa Ibom, Athens; Scenario, wieoftnoch, Karlsruhe (2024 KM S/S 2024, Akwa Ibom, Athens; Ah, This! (curated by Helena Papadopoulos), Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna (2023); GIRL, Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia; Our Misfortune, A Thousand Julys, Nicosia (2022).
Josephine Pryde (*1967, Alnwick, UK). Lives and works in Berlin. She studied at Central St. Martins, London, and the Wimbledon School of Art. Selected solo exhibitions include: How Frequency The Eye, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2024); The Vibrating Slab, Art Institute Chicago; Taylor Swift's 'Lover' & the Gastric Flu, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York (2022); The Flight That Moved Them, Gandt, New York (2021); Lapses in Thinking by the Person I Am, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, CA (2015). Work in public collections: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; MUDAM/ The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg; Mumok / Museum Modernern Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien; Fonds national d’art contemporain, FR ; FRAC Lorraine, FR; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Britain, UK; British Council, UK; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles. She is Professor for Contemporary Photography, University of the Arts, Berlin.
Esther Theaker (*1985, Hastings, UK). Lives and works in London. She studied Film at London College of Communication (UAL). She has produced editorials for Double, POP, ALL–IN, Self Service, Marfa Journal, D la Repubblica, Harper’s Bazaar France, Purple, Arena Homme+, and The Gentlewoman. She has also collaborated with fashion houses including Miu Miu, Chloé, Lanvin, and Hermès.
George Tourkovasilis (1944-2021). Lived and worked in Athens and Paris. He studied at the School of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Recent exhibitions include: George Tourkovasilis at Paris Internationale with RECORDS (2024); Ah, This! (curated by Helena Papadopoulos), Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna; Stay Hungry, Ermes Ermes, Rome (2023); The Night, Sleep (curated by Helena Papadopoulos), Radio Athènes; Spent, (curated by Maya Tounta), Akwa Ibom, Athens; Strange Switch, (curated by Andreas Melas), Melas Martinos (2022). A monograph designed by Julie Peeters, published by BILL, edited by Helena Papadopoulos, Julie Peeters, Maya Tounta will be launched at After 8 Books at Paris Internationale, Saturday 25/10, at 4 pm.
