Anatomia Humana II

Curated by Irini Karayannopoulou

July 10th - September 14th

Alexios Tjoyas. Alison Blickle. Alison Jones. Andreas Vais. Angeliki Stamatakou. Antonakis Christodoulou. Damien Deroubaix. Eleanna Horiti. Efstathios-Alexandros. Zoulias. Helen Flockhart. Irini Karayannopoulou. Kasia Kay. Loukia Alavanou. Marianna Hatzinikolaou. Matt Morris. Nicholas Zirk. Peggy Kouroumalos. Sharon Kivland. Sofia Kouloukouri. Theo Michael. Zoe Xenaki

The body opens again. A second cut, a deeper layer. Anatomia Humana – Part II continues the exploration of what it means to inhabit a human form. The surface gives way to sediment: rituals, desires, and systems encoded beneath the skin.

If the body was ever a map, it was always incomplete. The need for continuation arises from the impossibility of conclusion. To be human is to unfold—layer upon layer, nerve after nerve, spell entangled with tissue.

This exhibition extends the anatomical hunt with the soft, radical curiosity of the witch, the poet, the philosopher, and the artist. What remained dormant in Part I begins to stir: the secret organs of collective memory, the haunted chambers of violence, the energies of the feminine occult.

Where Plato sought the soul in symmetry, we trace it in rupture—in rituals forgotten by history but carried still in bone. Whitman sang of multitudes. This is their echo: politicized, eroticized, reborn in clay, pigment, paper, photographic image, and finally, flesh.

The works gathered in Anatomia Humana – Part II open the human soul as a porous anatomy—leaky and excessive. A body in dialogue with its shadows and doubts. A psyche hosting hauntings: personal, historical, planetary.

To extend is to allow for deviation. This exhibition welcomes that deviance. It becomes a site of psychic excavation and erotic knowledge, a cartography of wounds and wonders. The body as vessel begins to overflow. The act of looking inward becomes an act of revolt. To study the human now is to engage the systems that name, control, and obscure it.

Anatomia Humana – Part II offers a political anatomy, a sensual one, a mystical one. It listens to the body as a terrain, ripe with symbols, codes, and screams.

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Irini Karayannopoulou, *The Ritual*, 2014

The Curator - Irini Karayannopoulou

Irini Karayannopoulou is an artist, curator, and filmmaker whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, moving image, and publishing. She is the founder and editor of Janus femzine, a publication dedicated to erotica and feminism. As one half of the filmmaking duo Twin Automat, she co-directs experimental films and visual essays that blur the boundaries between fiction, documentary, and animation. Karayannopoulou has exhibited widely, with presentations at MoMA Warsaw, Polana Institute, DESTE Foundation, MOMus Museums, Fondazione Re Rebaudengo, Hydra Book Club, Nosbaum Reding, State of Concept, PCAI, Istanbul '74, Antonopoulou gallery and Mona Athens. She has recently curated Magic Mirror in Hydra island and Anatomia Humana I & II, both presented by Blackbird Rook. She lives and works in Athens.