Five Years & Darling Pearls & Co at Platforms Project NET 2021:

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Alias

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2060BC / Carly / Colette / Denise Alves-Rodrigues / Itziar Bilbao Urrutia / Rolina E. Blok / Koenraad Claes /
Leigh Clarke / Holly Crawford / Warren Garland / Marcia Beatriz Granero / Stewart Home / Marc Hulson /
Esther Planas / Artemis Potamianou / Richard Mark Rawlins /Alex Schady/ Lee Wells

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Online from 27th May to 10th June 2021

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For Platforms Net 2021 Five Years and Darling Pearls & Co present Alias, an international group show including artists based in the USA, UK, Brazil, Greece and Belgium. Selected by Rolina E. Blok, Alessandra Falbo and Marc Hulson, Alias continues a conversation on the shifting themes of self as other / other as self, begun last year with the exhibition and publication masc | mask | masque.  While the first exhibition’s title played on the semantic and homophonous relationship between the three words that composed it, interweaving themes of concealment, disguise and gender identity, Alias evokes the alter ego and its plural manifestation in the practices of the artists involved.  

Alias also extends themes addressed in Eaux d’Artifice (IFAC Athina 2019), a selection of works that explored transformations in current perceptions of celebrity. Many of the works within the three shows have a modus-operandi in common that is ritual or ceremonial and are executed performatively and/or in first person. 

An alias is an assumed identity and disguise is a form of medium. Some of the artists within this group explore approximations between art and life through invented or assigned personas; others interrogate the media of identification, playing with incognito indexes through material disguises, shifts of context or subtle acts of detournement.  Through these shifts in either the realms within which the medium registers or the register itself (what is recorded and consequently the way it is perceived or identified), the exhibition’s themes are entangled within real life actions, between fictional narratives and across divergent environments.

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(image: Esther Planas No Visa No UK No Passport No UK London 1982)

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alias vimeo programme and trailer | platformsproject.com | darlingpearls.co | fiveyears.org.uk | info@fiveyears.org.uk

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Now in its ninth consecutive year, Platforms Project - Independent Art Fair is an international show that indicatively charts the art currently produced through collective initiatives by artists on the international scene as they join forces to seek answers to contemporary artistic questions. The project is managed by Artemis Potamianou and Michalis Argyrou. The Artistic Director of Platforms Project 2021 is Artemis Potamianou.

 

ALIAS is presented across multiple sites:

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Images left - right:

    1. Itziar Bilbao Urrutia ‘Wild Woman (Red)’ 2020-21
    2. 2060BC (Koenraad Claes and Rolina E. Blok) ‘Pepi II’s Sacrifice’ 2021
    3. Koenraad Claes ’100 black and 100 white horses’ 2021
    4. Stewart Home ‘Magic Art Money Launderer & Multi -Gym’ (still) 2020
    5. Collette ‘“Ragdoll”… Rizzioli’s “Fashion as Fantasy” (Reverse Pop Series)’ 1975 © Colette.
    6. Holly Crawford ‘The Silence Drew Off, No Trespassers’ 2021
    7. Carly ‘#underwear4men #01’ 2021
    8. Denise Alves-Rodriguez ‘Parangolé de Faraday – V.Cz1’ 2020
    9. Artemis Potamianou ‘The Unknown Masterpiece: Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc’ 2018
    10. Alex Schady, Gargantuan, (still) 2021
    11. Marcia Beatriz Granero ‘Jaque Chama #2’ 2021
    12. Richard Mark Rawlins ‘Loud Angry Negro (from the series FINDING BLACK)’ 2013-15
    13. Lee Wells ‘Critical Actors 2.11’ (still) 2021
    14. Leigh Clark ‘Human Stain’ 2021
    15. Rolina E Blok ‘Sh*t’s on Fire Yo!’ 2021
    16. Marc Hulson ‘Untitled (Blueprint)’ 2021
    17. Warren Garland ‘The Four Humours, Welcome To Baltia Series’ (still) 2021
    18. Esther Planas, Fin de Visa, Piccadilly Circus London, 28 July 1982 2021
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