‘Kore’: Georgia Sagri’s study on the ‘act of seeing,’ at the Breeder

‘Τhe Heart of Kore,’ Georgia Sagri, 2025. [Nikos Katsaros]

In her caller solo accumulation “Kore,” astatine the Breeder Gallery, visual creator Georgia Sagri presents a divers assemblage of work – featuring sculptures, paintings and kinetic installations – that revolves astir the thematic concepts of identity, transformation and perception, what Sagri calls the “act of seeing.”

Sagri chose this title due to the fact that the word successful Greek has aggregate meanings, capturing the multidimensional quality of the exhibition: “It means daughter, referencing some familial relationships and the story of Persephone. In classical sculpture, it denotes the freestanding maiden figure, symbolizing youth and potential. Anatomically, it refers to the pupil of the oculus – the gateway to perception,” she explains.

For her, each portion is simply a self-portrait of her antithetic intelligence and affectional states, “not successful depicting my carnal likeness, but successful expressing interior states and experiences.”

One standout portion is “Caryatides. Absent Father,” which stands retired visually from the remainder of the accumulation done its aggravated blackness. Consisting of piles of some of Sagri’s apparel painted black, it’s her take connected the classical architectural fig of the caryatid, a stone carving of a draped pistillate figure, used arsenic a pillar to support the entablature of a Greek-style building. “It reimagines the caryatid arsenic a symbol of support and load of loss, either being the mislaid begetter oregon the load of mourning,” she says.

Sagri’s background, which spans from show creation to governmental activism arsenic 1 of the founders of the Occupy Wall Street question that spread crossed the US during the 2008 economical crisis, is besides strongly contiguous successful the exhibition, with galore works incorporating question oregon adjacent nonstop viewer participation.

Visitors are invited to sit with their backmost against the sculpture, often unaware that they person go portion of the artwork

At the bosom of the accumulation is the work “The Heart of Kore,” a hexagonal seat encircling an elevated solid sculpture. Because of its structural design, visitors are invited to sit with their backmost against the sculpture, often unaware that they person go portion of the artwork.

“The seat invites participation, blurring the enactment betwixt perceiver and participant,” says Sagri, adding that the enactment of sitting with one’s backmost to the sculpture challenges traditional viewing dynamics successful art. “This setup encourages viewers to prosecute with the work and each different successful a shared space,” she adds.

Sagri explains that her determination to prosecute with the conception of cognition besides carries governmental undertones, serving arsenic a critique of however technocapitalism shapes our senses done a relentless flood of images transmitted via screens.

“The accumulation critiques the ways successful which these systems impact cognition and embodiment, making the governmental magnitude inherent successful the work’s exploration of idiosyncratic and corporate agency,” she says.

In a sense, its subtlety whitethorn beryllium 1 of the astir valuable aspects of the exhibition, particularly fixed the accelerated gait astatine which we devour visual stimuli today. It invites the viewer to intermission and reflect, without relying connected spoon-fed narratives oregon meanings.

“Kore” is connected view astatine the Breeder Gallery (45 Iasonos, tel 210.331.7527, thebreedersystem.com) until June 7.

‘Caryatides. Absent Father,’ Georgia Sagri, 2025. [Nikos Karsaros]