‘In Bed With the Greeks’ exhibition opens in Adelaide with stories stitched through generations

More than 100 radical attended the opening of In Bed With the Greeks, a caller accumulation exploring the cultural, humanities and affectional value of beds, sleep and home beingness successful Greek communities, astatine the Cowandilla Community Room successful Adelaide connected 9 May.

Presented by the Organisation of Hellenic and Cypriot Women of SA (OEEGA) successful conjunction with Festival Hellenika and the South Australian History Festival, the accumulation combines heirlooms, textiles and oral histories to analyse however intimate home spaces bespeak migration, representation and community.

The Bridal Bed.

Running from 14–30 May astatine the Cowandilla Community Room connected Sir Donald Bradman Drive, the accumulation has already attracted strong assemblage involvement with its playful yet thought-provoking title.

Curator Joanna Tsalikis said the exhibition’s sanction was designed to spark curiosity while besides reflecting the cardinal relation beds play passim quality life.

Siesta successful Cyprus.

“I conjecture it’s a cheeky title, but it does drawback your attention,” Tsalikis said.

“On reflection, I see that the furniture is our whole life. It is there that we’re born, it is there that we marque love, it is there that we question remainder and healing and it is there that we die.”

Drawing connected themes from Greek antiquity done to modern migrant experiences successful Australia, the accumulation explores ideas surrounding sleep, dreams, communal surviving and the ineffable quality of the chamber successful Greek culture.

Anthea Carroll is simply a modern time Paploma shaper & arrogant subordinate astatine the exhibit.

Tsalikis referenced the mythological symbolism of the matrimony furniture of Odysseus successful The Odyssey, describing it arsenic a almighty emblem of enduring love, loyalty and stability within the home.

The accumulation besides traces evolving attitudes toward remainder and privacy, from the past Greek reverence for Hypnos, to the tradition of the day siesta still practised successful galore Mediterranean communities.

Andoni Fotopoulos President of Festival Hellenika with Professor Lucy Potter.

“I was fascinated however successful village communities passim Greece and different European cultures, it was not uncommon for radical to sleep communally,” Tsalikis said.

“It is absorbing that today successful our modern lodging designs, where open-plan surviving has evolved, the other has developed, and the lone truly backstage space is present the bedroom.”

She said the stories shared by participants became the affectional centrepiece of the exhibition, peculiarly done treasured textiles and heirlooms brought to Australia by archetypal and 2nd procreation migrants.

Over 100 radical attended the exhibition.

“From the astir humble small furniture screen to the richly worked ‘Paploma’ oregon doona which travelled to Australia successful a ‘Baoulo’ oregon matrimony trunk by our archetypal and 2nd procreation migrants to Australia, each portion you spot connected show is not conscionable a collation of memories, but a poem, a story and a song,” she said.

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