The Breeder
Frieze New York 2017

The Breeder is pleased to participate in Frieze NY 2017 showing works by Andreas Angelidakis, Andreas Lolis, Angelo Plessas, Chrysanne Stathacos, Sofia Stevi, Jannis Varelas.

Chrysanne Stathacos’ historic installation 1-900 Mirror Mirror will be on view at The Breeder booth C33 at Frieze New York. Visitors are able to enter the mirrored booth of the installation and get a tarot reading via skype from the artist but also from legendary New York physics, including Frank Andrews who was famously doing tarot readings for Andy Warhol and Yoko Ono.

The schedule of the readings during the fair is as follows:
Thursday 4 May: 1-3pm & 6-8pm / Friday 5 May: 6-8 pm / Saturday 6 May: 5-7pm / Sunday 7 May: 4-6pm

The first presentation of Chrysanne Stathacos’ 1-900 Mirror Mirror was at the project room at Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY in 1993-94. The work subsequently also traveled tο Trans Ambient at The Kitchen, NY and Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada.

AA Bronson has written the following on the work:

“….1-900 Mirror Mirror of 1993 is one of Chrysanne’s more remarkable works. Again a kind of theatrical mis en scène, it is not so much an installation for contemplation as, quite literally, reflection. Perhaps referencing both Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms and Lucas Samaras’ Mirrored Room, it is at the same time a site for the manifestation of the Oracle. The title alludes to the telephone sex lines that were so ubiquitous at the time of its making and it is no accident that sexual frenzy is associated with the oracular state.
And the Oracle is, in this case, Chrysanne herself. Communicating to the viewer through the videophone of the era, she predicts today’s era of digital media, video chat rooms and the interconnectedness of social media. It is somehow— well, spiritual”
Chrysanne Stathacos is a multidisciplinary artist whose work weaves together ritual actions, technology, history, feminism, spirituality and the environment in hybrid works and projects that demonstrate a commitment to social art practice. The Abortion Project, a collaboration with Kathe Burkhart, which commemorated the Manifeste de 343, a bold demand for women’s reproductive rights, was presented at Artists Space, Simon Watson Gallery, Real Art Ways, Hallwalls, and New Langton Arts between 1990 and 1993. AA Bronson included her performance and installation Rose Mirror Mandala (2006) in three exhibition projects including: The Temptation of AA Bronson, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 2013, as well as in exhibition projects at the Kunstverein Salzburg and the Kunstverein Graz, both 2015. The Banquet by Chrysanne Stathacos and Hunter Reynolds is currently on view at Participant Inc, NY for a 25 year anniversary screening (1992-2017).

Stathacos has work in numerous public collections, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester.