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Marina Xenofontos, Holding back, holding tight, 2023, Merino wool fabric, embroidery, steel structure gallery, 330 x 150 cm
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Marina Xenofontos, Old Ford Rd, 2023, MDF wood, print on plexiglass, LED lights, Arduino board, reflective sensor, 69 x 53 x 53 cm
Marina Xenofontos and Kyriakos Kyriakides, Heart-shaped maquette for future photography show, 2020, Wood, inkjet prints (2018-2020), felt, steel base, 53 x 98 x 93 cm
Marina Xenofontos, Underpass, 2010-2023, MDF wood, silkscreen print on steel (2010), steel base, 53 x 98 x 93 cm
Marina Xenofontos, Underground plan 1:100, 2019, Wood, resin paint, cleaning product, 80 x 53.5 x 65 cm
Marina Xenofontos, Main engine, 2023, Found industrial air-conditioner, turned wood, 100rpm motor, 57 x 68 x 64 cm
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Marina Xenofontos, Grandfathers distillery, shed for making canes, and his pet donkey, Inos’, home, 2023, MDF wood, c-prints from color negatives (2005), 70 x 63 cm
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Marina Xenofontos, Landing, 2021-2023, Cardboard maquette for Ceiling Inferno animation (2021), sulfur, 110 x 98 cm
The doors from the entrance of the gallery were relocated to the doorway of the old office for the purpose of the exhibition
Bio
Marina Xenofontos (b. 1988 in Cyprus) lives and works in Athens. failed cache is her second solo exhibition at the gallery, following But we’ve met before in 2020. In the coming months, Xenofontos will have her first institutional solo presentations at SculptureCenter in New York and at Camden Arts Center in London, respectively. She received her MFA from Bard College in 2018 and was a resident at the Rijksakademie in 2019. More recently, Xenofontos was in residency at Fondation Fiminco and at Lafayette Anticipations. Her work has been shown at ERMES ERMES, Rome (2023); AKWA IBOM, Athens (2022); Phenomenon 4, Greece (2022); Goethe Institute, Cyprus (2022); gb agency, Paris (2021); DESTE Foundation, Athens (2021); Mediterranea 19 Young Artists Biennale 19, San Marino (2021); The Island Club, Limassol (2020); NiMAC, Nicosia (2019); and the Cyprus Pavilion at Biennale Arte, Venice (2017) with Neoterismoi Toumazou.
