the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) transformed its roof into one of the most impressive summer theaters in Athens, the CineFIX.
With a panoramic view of the entire city, and the Acropolis in the background, the EMST roof creates an ideal condition for the projection of films, videos and audio-visual artistic works and changes the relationship between viewers with works of contemporary art and their surroundings. Summer screenings run all summer through September and take place every second weekend of the month.
The EMST summer cinema starts at Friday, June 21 at 21.30 at the screening of all his films Penny Siopis presented at the For Dear Life retrospective exhibition at EMS. This is a unique opportunity for viewers to stream the multi-layered work of Siopis in dialogue with the city that is one of their imaginary points of reference.
THE Penny Siopis combines ready-made 8mm and 16mm film with text and sound to tell the story of people caught, often with traumatic consequences for themselves, in the turmoil of the political and social conflicts of their time . The individual stories he tells are often from the larger world of South African History, stories that are not in the official historiography of the area. The films deal with topics such as colonialism and apartheidTHE modernityTHE immigration and the globalizationwhile recently concerns have been raised in relation to surroundings and the relationships between human and non-human factors.
In general, Penny Siopis’s works are a thoughtful, shocking immersion in the realities of migration and exile, diaspora, political turmoil and the merging of public and private life. in the eye and gives access to the personal universe of the artist, in a material related to the roots and experiences of him and his family in South Africa but also in Greece. Contains various historical experiences – from the Greco-Turkish war of the period 1919-1922, which sealed the fate of millions of Greeks and changed the map of the country, and the successive waves of immigration, up to liberation movements in Africa – Siopis weaves in these works a series of intricate allegories that gather in a more revealing, fascinating picture of the last half of the 20th century and a world that has changed a lot, especially in Africa.