We’re thrilled to welcome the Girls Club’s newest Artist in Residence, Eirini Linardaki!
More about Eirini:
Eirini Linardaki was born in Athens and studied art in France, where she lived for two decades. She lives and works between the island of Crete, France and the United States.
She has exhibited in Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece; Salon de Montrouge, Paris; Fri-Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland; Natural History Museum, Geneva, Switzerland; Macedonian Contemporary Art Museum, Greece; Hamburg Kunsthaus, Germany, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Institut Français d’Athènes, Greece, Greek Consulate, New York, John Jay College for Criminal Justice, New York, etc.
She created public art in New York, Paris, Athens and Heraklion. She was commissioned for several public art installations by the NYC Mayor’s office for climate change, the NYC Parks and the NYC DOT. Her public installations are currently on view in Heraklion, Queens and Brooklyn.
She often works in collaboration with communities and schools to develop her installations. In her latest body of works she uses archival material and wikileaks footage in order to incorporate conflict imagery in her discourse.
Artist Statement
I was born in Athens and studied arts in France. My engagement as an artist changed when I went to run a project of workshops in Liberia, a country devastated by civil war, where despite harsh reality, art was a path for freedom of speech. Since then, I feel that it is my an integral part of my journey as an artist.
I believe that at this moment in history, art walks hand in hand with social change. I experience this through my research, in my practice and in my overall journey as an artist. The complexity and persistent presence of the issues I confront within different cities and communities become part of my artworks, that are born from the aspirations of the participants.
Sometimes these persistent issues knock on the door and let themselves into our dreams and become a defining aspect of a useful vision. In this moment of historical global crisis, art is awakening and serving people in their communities. I seek to change lives while cohabiting within these communities using my conception and practice of art by reaching out to youth and creating an ongoing artistic research within the context of political and social change with subjects and materials drawn from the environments I invest in.
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