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– About

“Los and Chris. Ode To Friendship” is a book about intimacy, memory, and the language of connection and creation. Its material includes paintings and ceramics, performances, found objects, memories, snapshots of Athens and visual scores. A constellation of gestures, it reflects Yorgia Karidi’s distinct gaze and leaves a strong, lived-in imprint on both her visual and her inter/personal alphabet, as well as the artistic process itself.

The book is the result of a months-long collaboration between Yorgia Karidi and the publishers, aiming to materialize Yorgia’s world into an object that resonates aesthetically with its contents. Its narrative transforms individual works into a coherent whole, with rhythm and progression, while the materiality of the publication further emphasizes its layered character. Each image featured in the book is accompanied by a corresponding caption at the end of this bilingual edition.

The publication includes fragments from the personal archive of Yorgia Karidi and is accompanied by a discussion between the artist and Danae Stefanou, based on Yorgia’s practice in the context of the book.

– Short Bio

Yorgia Karidi is an Athens-based artist, musician and performer working across painting, sculpture, video, performance and verbal scores. Her practice explores memory, desire and consciousness, often through the human voice, investigating its social, historical, and cultural contexts. Her work has been presented at venues including the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Greek National Opera, SNFCC, the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, as well as interdisciplinary spaces in Berlin, Graz, Munich and Leeds. She has released music on labels such as Nutty Wombat, Inner Ear Records, Trial & Error, Ecstatic and Bokeh Versions. Karidi studied theater and film at the University of Patras and the Freie Universität Berlin and holds an MFA in Digital Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts.

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