Fabric

Fabric is a research project and documentary video on the history of the buildings of the Athens School of Fine Arts, a former textile factory established in the 1920ies.

Documentary Video Fabric @ documenta 14, Athens School of Fine Arts, Peiraios Street 256, Athens, 8 April-17 July 2017

Fabric

Fabric is a research project on the history of the buildings of the Athens School of Fine Arts, a former textile factory established in the 1920ies.

Fabric is a documentary video that presents the research on the history of the building complex that today houses the Athens School of Fine Arts, one the main venues of documenta 14 in Athens. It also narrates a family history that spans more than over 100 years and starting in Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, continues via Beirut and Istanbul (Constantinople) arriving in Athens in the 1920ies.

Fabric is realized on occasion of documenta 14 in Athens in dialogue with the documenta 14 curator Monika Szewczyk.
Fabric is a tool to help the visitors understand and connect the work of the artists with the space where the art is presented.

Fabric is exhibited by the documenta 14 curators Monika Szewczyk and Marina Miliou-Theocharaki at the Old Library, Athens School of Fine Arts.

The title of the video relates to all meanings and dimensions of the word “fabric”: a cloth made by weaving, knitting, or felting fibers: woolen fabrics; framework, structure: the fabric of society; a building; edifice; the method and act of construction, especially of a church building; the maintenance of such a building; the spatial arrangement and orientation of the constituents of a rock in petrography…

PRESS

Interview
Adam Szymczyk, Artistic Director documenta 14
22 March 2017

@ Kathimerini Newspaper
Greece

As Adam Szymczyk, artistic director of documenta 14, explained to the Greek daily newspaper “Kathimerini” in the article “The documenta transforms the capital” by Sakis Ioannidis, 22 March 2017 “the documenta ‘tried to understand the history of the premises.’ Adam Szymczyk stressed that the content of the documenta 14 in Athens, is influenced and shaped by the places of the hosting venues. Therefore the need for “tools” to help the visitors understand and connect the work of the artists with spaces where the art is presented.”

Article
Fabric
Nikos Vatopoulos
28 April 2017

@ Kathimerini Newspaper
Greece

“Fabric” features the life cycle of “Greek Spinning and Weaving Mills”, but at the same time it is the narration of the greater framework in which the bourgeois citizens of the Ottoman Empire acted.

Article
Rex
Nikos Vatopoulos
18 May 2017

@ Kathimerini Newspaper
Greece

They returned full of ideas about the world of show business and the new, state-of-the-art entertainment mansions that in America was radically altering the cityscape. These new ideas and the vision of the Sikiaridis brothers are behind the creation of “Rex” in the heart of Athens.