Metro Trilogy

Paris Metro, Athens Metro, London Tube

Exhibition by Anastasia Zoi Souliotou

30 May – 30 June 2013

Opening : Thursday 30 May at 19:30

The Fondation Hellénique (Hellenic Foundation) is pleased to announce Anastasia Zoi Souliotou’s first painting exhibition in Paris. Anastasia is a visual artist and currently a resident in the Fondation Hellénique. She lives and works between Athens and Paris.

The artist will present new paintings inspired by metro stations in London, Paris and Athens. For Anastasia Zoi the metro reflects the city identity. Being the city ‘stage’ and the ‘platform’ of the urban life system, it is presented as an integral part of everyday life and a principal globalization symbol.

There will also be an ‘exhibition within the exhibition’ with the artist’s drawings inspired by the Fondation Hellénique façade, as well as by Derek Stanyer’s music.

Artist’s biography

Anastasia Zoi Souliotou was born in 1987 in Volos (Greece).

She lives and works between Athens and Paris. She lives in Paris since 2011, where she is doing her PhD in Art & Image Technology, Paris 8 University. She is a resident in the Fondation Hellénique for the academic year 2012-2013.

Her solo shows include Athens & London; Intersecting METRO-poleis at the Hellenic Centre in London (2011) and « Métro » au Cultural Centre of Nea Ionia Magnisias in Greece with parallel digital exhibition on telematic screens in all stations of the Metro of Athens (2009).

She has, also, presented her art in collective exhibitions, festivals and congresses in many capitals worldwide : London, Paris, Athens, New York, Prague, Buenos Aires.

In Paris she curated the exhibition d’Ici et d’Ailleurs in the House of Chile (February 2013), where she showed photos and videos inspired the webcams and the Google Maps Street View. She developed this concept in the context of a Visual Arts & Music event in the Fondation Hellénique (March 2013), as well as in the CIVD 19^th Intercultural Festival, Paris 8 University.

Artist’s webpage : anastasiazoisouliotou.wordpress.com

View exhibition in the Fondation Hellénique website

View exhibition publication in Kathimerini newspaper by Eleni Bistika

View euGreeka publication