Zabludowicz Collection Invites: Athena Papadopoulos

29 Jan-8 Mar 2015

Overview

Athena Papadopoulos’s (b.1988, Toronto, Canada) multidisciplinary practice encompasses a range of processes, including painting, collage, drawing and stitching, and unusual materials such as mustard, red wine, Pepto-Bismol and shoe polish. Combining family photographs with hand-drawn figures, magazine cuttings and found objects she creates perversely humourous 2D and 3D forms. Taking the form of layered wall-hung canvases, oversized propped cushions or delicately amended pieces of clothing, Papadopoulos’s objects suggest riotous narratives where fact and fiction are uncertain, and where protagonists remain mysterious and their motives unclear.