Dimitris Gketsis
The Fault in our Stars

November 10, 2022–December 23, 2022
The Breeder Feeder


The Breeder is pleased to present The Fault in our Stars, Dimitris Gketsis’ new solo exhibition at The Breeder Feeder, presenting a series of his signature style wall reliefs. Gketsis’ new resin sculptures are reminiscent of marble reliefs that decorated monuments in Ancient Rome and Greece fusing classical vocabulary with a contemporary sensibility. His works are populated by female figures, hybrid entities and animals. He uses mythology as a source material for his investigation of how the social context of the post-colonial and patriarchal environment has shaped our current time.

In contrast to the dominant representation of the ideal of the white, male Man of Reason that we see in classical art, Gketsis responds with a cyborgian vision of hybrid, manifold beings proposing new hierarchies and subjectivities. In his works the boundaries between stereotypical definitions of male and female, black or white, human or animal merge.

His protagonists elude the strictures of a fixed, coherent identity; they propose a self, set free, filled with possibilities. His critique of existing societal norms and his proposition of new politics of identity is presented here with satire and humor. His sculptures inspired by antiquity adopt contemporary references drawn from pop Greek culture to fashion and music. Works like Woman Warrior and Social Visibility draw equally from the latest Balenciaga campaigns and the famous Schiaparelli corset while at the same time embracing hybrid androgynous representations of the female figure.

 

Dimitris Gketsis, The procession of horses, 2022, polyester resin with fiberglass, copper & aluminium leaf ,acrylic spray, 67 x 136 x 8 cm.
Dimitris Gketsis Justice and revenge (woman huntress) and (neptune horse), 2022. Polyester resin with fiberglass, copper leaf, 116.5 x 108 x 4 cm.
Dimitris Gketsis, Monstera tree, 2022, Polyester resin with fiberglass , copper leaf, 113 x 42 x 3 cm.
Dimitris Gketsis, Lets both escape from our captivity I, 2022. Polyester resin and fiberglass , copper leaf 74 x 110 x 4 cm.
Dimitris Gketsis, Sleeping Unicorn, 2022 Polyester resin with fiberglass , copper leaf and copper sheets, 15 x 69 x 40 cm.
Dimitris Gketsis, Let's both escape from our captivity II, 2022, Polyester resin and fiberglass , copper leaf, 95 x 100 x 4 cm.
Dimitris Gketsis, Forget, 2022, Polyester resin with fiberglass ,acrylic spray and aluminium leaf, 74 x 50 x 3 cm.
Dimitris Gketsis, Social Visibility, 2022, Polyester resin with fiberglass ,acrylic spray and aluminium leaf, 88 x 60 x 3 cm.
Dimitris Gketsis, Ghost in the shell, 2022, Polyester resin and fiberglass, 65 x 40 x 4 cm.
Dimitris Gketsis, Unicorn mermaid, 2022, Polyester resin and fiberglass, copper leaf, 145 x 100 x 3 cm.
Dimitris Gketsis, Woman Warrior, 2022, Polyester resin and fiberglass , copper & aluminium leaf , acrylic spray, 76.5 x 45.5 x 3 cm.
Dimitris Gketsis, Her Hands, 2022, Polyester resin and fiberglass ,aluminium leaf , acrylic spray, 53.5 x 35 x 4 cm.
Dimitris Gketsis, Blood drop footstep, 2022, Glazed ceramic and copper leaf, various dimensions.