Calliope Pavlides: Vaporizer

Harkawik is pleased to announce our third presentation with Greek artist Calliope Pavlides. Vaporizer finds Pavlides moving freely between drawing and painting, and establishes a dialectic between the two. Each picture hides multiple filmic exposures, reflections, refractions and apparitions, and pictures-within-pictures, and, crucially, captures Pavlides own encounter with the making of the work. Composed like a porous travelogue, Vaporizer chronicles the artist's experiences in ad-hoc residencies and studios across Athens, Paris, and Los Angeles, and evidences a deep meditation on the aesthetic phenomena and poetics of each. Glowing screens populate the works, taking us simultaneously "outside" the picture, and deeper within, and charting new territory for the artist's primary fixation: perspective (emotional, physical, perceptual, and compositional). Pavlides leaves us with a distinct sense of the enduring power of introspection, and of the potential for the realm of the personal to inscribe the broader social and political domains we inhabit.