Millefiori ART Space, Athens, Greece, presents

Six Storeys

Thursday 23rd September – Saturday 23rd October, 2004

As part of the 11th International Month of Photography, Millefiori ART Space is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by London based artist Becky Beasley.

Six Storeys makes reference to the height of the cityscape of Athens itself - six storeys, or levels, is the usual limit for building, which gives Athens an unusually low skyline and allows the mountains beyond the city to remain ever present within ones experience of living in the city- Beasley attempts to imagine the space beneath, between this low skyline and the street.

For this new body of work, produced during six months she spent living and working in Athens at the beginning of 2004 - a time of immense, daily changes to the city - Beasley reflects back onto the city her vision of it, an invisible city perhaps, in the spirit of Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities, written whilst he was living in Venice. The series is the result of an ongoing investigation into the vital relationship (human, spatial, temporal) with the objects of the Everyday.

Beasley’s photographic works are hand-made in such a way that they are in themselves somewhat strange things: not obviously photographic, at times readily mistaken for drawings or paintings, but ultimately experienced as images of another imaginary field in which the cadaverous, yet life-affirming nature of the thing may be experienced profoundly in the mind of the spectator.

Maria Papaskirianou, Gallerist, MillefioriARTSpace