April 06 – May 06, 2023
In the Histonas (Room of Webs) installation, Margellos’ storytelling unravels through manual repetitive gestures, in two separate series of handmade embroidery & weaving on metal screen.
While in Classical Greece, women used to spend most of the day in the gynaikon, the women’s quarters of the house located on an upper floor, where mothers raised their children and engaged in spinning thread and weaving, Iliodora Margellos revisits history and places this private space at Dio Horia Acropolis Annex, located at the lower level of the gallery. Thus, a peculiar kind of a temple is being built, dedicated to powerful goddesses, such as Athena, Arachne, and Artemis Chrysselakatos, that praises patience and nurture as feminine qualities translated through the silent act of weaving and embroidery, and aims to tame the spirits and counterbalance enforced social isolation, securing an opening to women’s inner world via quiet means of expression.
