Georgia Sagri
Call me gravity

The thematic exhibition Call me gravity explores the concept of debt from various angles — focusing in particular on its impact on bodies and contemporary perceptions. Beyond its economic meaning, debt encompasses social, spatial, historical and emotional dimensions. It manifests concretely in the proliferation of credit lines, but also lurks in what eludes measurement, in what is neither accounted for nor recognised.

Within the framework of the exhibition, artist Georgia Sagri presents her new performance work Child: 10 Meditations on Property.

Alongside Sagri’s four exhibited artworks, the performance unfolds through questions of breath, pressure, maternity, recovery, and transformation. Performed during the artist’s sixth month of pregnancy, Child: 10 Meditations on Property reflects on labour, the maternal body, and motherhood as both an intimate condition and a social construct.

Georgia Sagri’s work has been presented in major international exhibitions and institutions, including documenta 14, Manifesta 11, the Whitney Biennial, the Istanbul, Lyon and Göteborg Biennials, as well as MoMA, MoMA PS1, Guggenheim Bilbao, Palais de Tokyo, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Gropius Bau, Kunsthalle Basel, Castello di Rivoli, Portikus, SculptureCenter, de Appel, Mimosa House, the Museum of Cycladic Art, TAVROS, and Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. She is an Associate Professor in the Studio of Performance at the Athens School of Fine Arts and the founder of ΥΛΗ[matter]HYLE, an Athens-based non-profit art space dedicated to care practices and social empathy. Her book of writings, Stage of Recovery, was published by Divided Press in 2021.