Malvina Panagiotidi
Ghostly Whispers

The Breeder is pleased to present a sculptural display by Malvina Panagiotidi titled Ghostly Whispers at the Atrium.

Malvina Panagiotidi’s practice materialises at the conjuncture of elements that may seem opposed, such as folkore and occult modernism, yet are connected by their marginalisation of mainstream culture. Her work arises as a web which she constructs precisely through the tension which they exert on each other through the differing elements which highlight issues of phobia and crises at critical points of transformation. Panagiotidi’s installation are preocuppised not only with their environment, but also with time and whether these axes of movements can be stilled, or at least slowed down, to give the audience a chance to pause and reflect.

The artist challenges us by bringing neglected stories, both historic and contemporary, into full view, frustrating and dislodging any preconceived notions the audience may have. She often starts with a complex historic research which already places her work in a highly volatile liminal space, at the boundary of the present and past. Although her work helps create these connections between opposing elements, it also recognises and relishes their inherent disjuncture: bodies are presented in a blasonic way, the malleability of the sound, now become a tough physical graphic score.

Panagiotidi’s is foremost preoccupied with materials and with the reification of what we perceive as immaterial. The transformations which underscore the figurative impetus is translated in how materials act in their work: wax is on the point of melting, glass is pulled down by gravity as if still soft, metal is unravelling in all directions almost under the strain of its own tension. In this way, a soundwave becomes a metal web that grows and fills the space it inhabits, or a thought is crystallised in a softly spinning mouth-blown glass element.

Panagiotidi (b. 1985, Athens Greece) has studied Architecture in the University of Thessaly, Greece and received her MA in Art in Context, Department of Fine Arts, Universität der Künste Berlin. She recently completed her first solo museum exhibition, titled “All Dreams Are Vexing” at EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens. Select group exhibitions include: “My Dreams Were Dashed Against Your Walls”, DEO Projects, Chios, Greee (2024); “Unboxing Callas”, Cultural Center of Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens (2024); Plásmata II: Ioannina”, Onassis Foundation (2023);  “Outraged by Pleasure”, Nobel Building (2023); “Mr. Robinson Crusoe stayed home”, Benaki Museum, Athens (2021); “Gone today here tomorrow”, AnnexM, Athens Concert Hall, Athens (2019).