Katerina Katsifaraki’s solo exhibition Dwelling is presented at the Mentis-Antonopoulos (“NEMA”) Passementerie of the Benaki Museum, curated by Christoforos Marinos. Katsifaraki’s art revolves around the concept of perpetual motion. Ephemeral dwelling, roots and uprooting, the ceaseless moving from place to place, taking notice of the ostensibly unimportant and giving prominence to the fleeting are at the epicentre of her work.
 

Katerina Katsifaraki is inspired by the raw materials found in the natural - and, occasionally, the urban - landscape, and what she might casually encounter within it. “Sometimes it is simply capturing the movement of nature, a light, a shadow, the wind, a course. At other times, it is during a walk through the city, or on a break from work, where a light, a shadow, the wind, transforms, gives life to a hole in the road, a rubbish truck, a piece of trash floating in the air”.
 

The content of Katsifaraki’s exhibition is reflected in its location. In NEMA, the last traditional manufactury of passementerie products (ribbons, baids, tassels, fringes etc.) operational in Greece today, Katsifaraki felt “the connection of thread to nature and life, the operation of machinery by people and their creations”. To her, the manufactury floor contains the stories of people and places, of nature and its rhythms – it creates, bears fruit, destroys and is eternally reborn.