
November 19 - December 22, 2022
@ One Minute Space, Athens
︎︎︎Curated by Ariana Kalliga
Artists: James Beckett, Jesse Chun, Alexis Fidetzis, Carolina Fusilier and Miko Revereza, Jenny Marketou, Ashkan Sepahvand, Anastasia Sosunova, and Maria Varela
Folk Fiction brings together nine artists from different geographies who share a fascination with demarcating and poetically deconstructing fundamental aspects of representation. Pulling away from traditional modes of meaning-making, they look at language as a system of oral resonances and historically imbued forms. The works on view draw on lores, oral traditions and anecdotal accounts transmitted across times. Considering how these forms of knowledge have been reused and co-opted to build imperial and colonial narratives, these artists explore a double consciousness—simultaneously rediscovering oral traditions and inheritances, and dissembling them in order to examine their implications in the present.
From mythical maps to invented rituals, Folk Fiction looks at the past as imaginatively open-ended. Building narratives from fragmented knowledge, several of the works on view evoke Saidiya Hartman’s method of “critical fabulation”, which combines fiction and critical historical research to transgress the official accounts and protocols of history. Folk Fiction sees how far fabulation can be pushed, and what capability it has for producing multifaceted representations of the past, present and future.





Folk Fiction opening at One Minute Space, Athens, on November 19th, 2022. Photo by Nikos Maliakos. Courtesy of One Minute Space, Athens.

