Born 1973, Athens, Greece, lives and works in Brussels and Maastricht.
In her books, drawings and videos, Kamma investigates possibilities
for a future architecture that rejects binary oppositional systems
of thought and accepts, rather than tolerates, “other” positions.
Kamma's interest lies in narrative representations of
transformation and her practice is informed by the inherent gaps
and contradictions within existing cultural narratives and
structures. These gaps or contradictions concern issues of memory,
authenticity and identity. They often take the form of real objects
or stories that are constituted as stereotypes through omission of
their actual history. By revisiting systems of classification and
strategies of description and taxonomy, Kamma examines the relation
of the cliché, the banal and the stereotype, to the formation of
history and the production of meaning. Through her work, two things
unfold at the same time; a direct exploration of the spatial
in-between through reflection on space itself, but also the
“appearance” of an object that suggests an in-between space.
Through the continuous reconstitution of space and the constant
re-construction of the object’s fragmented, edited, copied and
pasted, repeated and replaced historical, etymological or
representational descriptions and values, the formation,
distribution and division of knowledge and experience are called
into question. Her most recent body of work examines how words and
images co-exist to create meaning via disruption, where sense comes
only through letting a system collapse.
Kamma was the first winner of the Preis Fur Junge Kunst in 2012. She was nominated for the 5th Deste Prize and the Lissone Award in 2007. Solo exhibitions includeEleni Kamma, Art Seen Projects (2015), From bank to bank on a gradual slope, Villa Romana, Florence (2012), Enlever et Entretenir II, Wiels Project Room, Brussels (2011); Enlever et Entretenir I, HEDAH, Maastricht (2010), Forgotten Ties, Nadja Villene, Lieges (2009) and Once Past the Years of Green Emotion, Loraini Alimantiri / gazonrouge, Athens (2007. Her work has been included in group shows such as Found in Translation, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2011), Movie Night Vol. 4 : Global House Video Screenings, Kunsthalle Gwangju,Korea (2011), Botanies of Desire, Video Program, SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul (2011), Animacall-The Animation project 2011, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2011), Drawing Room, Group showTerra Mediterranea: In Action (2017), Omikron Gallery, Nicosia (2011),Athens Visual Dialogues, Onasseion Cultural Center, Athens, (2010); Weaving In and Out, Tapestry, 124th and 2nd Ave in East Harlem, 
New York, (2010), Expanded Ecologies. Perspectives in a time of emergency, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2009), L’Art en Europe, Domain Pommery, Rheims (2008); Freeze! Who is there?, 1st International Moscow Young Biennial, Moscow (2008); Chanting Baldessari, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (2008); Lissone 2007 Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Milan (2007); 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2007); Other Spaces, 1st Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Biennial: Heterotopias, Thessaloniki (2007); Take My Breath Away, Galerie La Centrale-Powerhouse, Montréal (2006) and AnotherProduct, Cornerhouse, Manchester (2006).
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