Roula Partheniou | Untethered

Roula Partheniou

Untethered

Toronto, Canada: Self-published, 2017 - 

30.5 × 22.9 × 22.9 cm

Open Edition (each unique)

This foam and cast resin replica of a balloon features an embedded screw allowing it to be securely affixed to the ceiling. The edition is unlimited, with the buyer selecting an available colour of automotive paint; no two works share the same colour. Production shots below. 

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Partheniou's work can currently be seen in a solo exhibition at Marta in Los Angeles. Titled Two and Two Together, the show runs until April 23rd. For more information, click here. 

"Partheniou’s research and material reconnaissance engages a vocabulary of replication which stutters across her process—but not in reference to static originals. Rather, she attends to the learned reflections of objects housed in our embodied understandings of language, signification, and meaning-production. We come to know objects in and with time, as the detritus of everyday associations pile atop our understandings of form. In a shifted context, what lesson do we encounter from an object that refuses to satiate our assumptive expectation for its use? Works like ‘Untitled (Post-Its)’ and ‘Untitled (White Square with Colour Bar)’ stare plainly outward, eliciting the subjective palimpsest of a viewer’s memories to roar forward and barrage these surfaces like projected light upon a screen. The symphonic openness which saturates “Two and Two Together” seemingly culminates its deadpan delivery in the wall-work ‘Untitled (Brush Lines),’ a jittering grid of striped felt forms that looms at the edge of optical illusion, like a regime of chalkboard erasers stacking themselves en masse. ‘Untitled (Brush Lines)’ names its own contingency to painting within the title, a strategic departure from other works in the exhibition that further dislodges familiarity and function and asks a different question about how we got here in the first place."

- Marta Press Release