Artists: Christoph Szalay and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga
Exhibition title: The Library of Our Encounters
Curated by: Viktoria Draganova
Venue: Swimming Pool, Sofia, Bulgaria
Date: November 1, 2020 – February 28, 2021
Photography: © The artists & Swimming Pool. Photo: : Photo-Corps
The Library of Our Encounters is a long-term project of Swimming Pool within the residency program with Akademie Schloss Solitude, dedicated to what has changed most radically lately: the encounter—as event, presence, time, and meaning. The library contains a growing selection of books, carefully collected over the last few years, but it also foregrounds itself as a possible space for a series of encounters among words, ideas, silences, and people, aiming to reconsider the trajectory of our thinking in recent months of crisis. The library opens with a textual and spatial arrangement created in collaboration with Christoph Szalay and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga.
The official opening of the library was on November 1st, 14-19h. The project takes place in the frame of RadOST and the Eastern Europe Artist-In-Residency Exchange Program of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, and is supported by the Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts of the State Province of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and Goethe Institute Sofia.
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Christoph Szalay studied German philology in Graz and Art in Context at the University of Arts Berlin. His artistic practice that is primarily text-based revolves around transdisciplinary works in different constellations and contexts. Latest works include: RÆNDERN, publication, Ritter Verlag, Graz-Vienna-Klagenfurt, 2020 / OCTOPUS, Performance together with Navaridas & Deutinger, brut Studio, Vienna, 2020 / ONÍRICA/REMAINS, Installation with Navaridas & Deutinger, Kunsthaus Graz, 2020.
Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga works between the realms of art, architecture, and urban research to explore the possibilities inherent in the intersections between social and physical spaces. Such context specificity finds working manifestation in curation, artistic production, and collaborative organization, all of which point to an interest in structure as a dynamic of living and working together.
The Library of Our Encounters, in collaboration with Christoph Szalay and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Swimming Pool, 2020–2021
The Library of Our Encounters, in collaboration with Christoph Szalay and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Swimming Pool, 2020–2021
The Library of Our Encounters, in collaboration with Christoph Szalay and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Swimming Pool, 2020–2021
The Library of Our Encounters, in collaboration with Christoph Szalay and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Swimming Pool, 2020–2021
The Library of Our Encounters, in collaboration with Christoph Szalay and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Swimming Pool, 2020–2021
The Library of Our Encounters, in collaboration with Christoph Szalay and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Swimming Pool, 2020–2021
The Library of Our Encounters, in collaboration with Christoph Szalay and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Swimming Pool, 2020–2021
The Library of Our Encounters, in collaboration with Christoph Szalay and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Swimming Pool, 2020–2021
The Library of Our Encounters, in collaboration with Christoph Szalay and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Swimming Pool, 2020–2021
The Library of Our Encounters, in collaboration with Christoph Szalay and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Swimming Pool, 2020–2021
The Library of Our Encounters, in collaboration with Christoph Szalay and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Swimming Pool, 2020–2021
