Harpias — ZAZ10TS

October 17 - November 13, 2022
10 Times Square Billboard, South East Corner of 41st Street and 7th Avenue

PRESENTED BY ZAZ CORNER “IN BETWEEN”

Harpías / Άρπυιες is a video collaboration between Greek artist Eleni Giannopoulou and Mexican artist Tania Reza. The direction of photography was the work of Leslie Montero.

The wearable sculpture was made in a small room in calle James Sullivan, a famous red light district of Mexico city by sculptor and installation artist Eleni Giannopoulou. The video was directed and activated in an old rubber factory in the center of the city where a number of butoh dancers, a pregnant women, two young children and many more wore and activated the mask through stillness, the act of falling [self-inflicted balance], movement repetitions, tremblings and sounds whispered to oneself—concentration on a confined space reflecting the infinite. The acting, if any was an assemblage of sign language, shadow theater and instinctive movement creatively con-fusing concepts of theater, play, and ritual.

eleni giannopoulou

Eleni Giannopoulou (b. 1994, Greece) is a Greek sculptor and installation artist. A native of Thessaloniki and Crete, she trained at the Angel Academy of Art in Italy before receiving an MFA at the New York Academy of Art. In 2014, she won first prize in the Art Renewal Center International Scholarship competition. She is a three-time recipient of the Elisabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and a recipient of the Panepinto Family Foundation Scholarship and the David Kratz and Gregory Unis Scholarship. She has also been awarded with the Chabb Fellowship from the New York Academy of Art for which she exhibited in Tribeca, NYC on September 2018. She has showed work in Florence, Miami, Toronto, New York, Mexico City and Athens. She is currently living and working in Brooklyn.

TANIA REZA

Tania Reza (born 1991, Mexico) is a Mexican Video Artist and Dancer. She has a degree in Contemporary Dance and a postgraduate degree inArt and Technology Mediation by UNAM. She has won the National Young Art Award with a video of her series People Doing Things and the National Experimental Video Award. She was also a winner of FONCA 2017-2018 in the New Technology category. She was a resident artist ofFrancisco Toledo's CaSa Oaxaca, as part of the Screen Dance and Expanded Scene lab in the USSR studio in México City, and in theExperimental Video Biennial in Chile. Her work is part of the DanceFilm Collection of the National Art Network and her last exhibition was inSalón ACME 2020.