Christina Calbari

Born 1975, Athens, Greece.
Lives and works in Athens, Greece.

«It is precisely at this point Calbari’s work – beyond any direct reference to a psychological condition, an instant of our self – is consummated as a work of art, a visual work, a work of painting (be it a sketch, a picture, a mural, a photograph, a video). This consummation follows from the fact Calbari’s work isn’t concerned with direct narration. It is concerned with indirect memory, whose reconstruction is both what we call “image” and what no image can re-enact as a whole and can only re-enact as part of a wider process of triviality and awe; description and enigma; analogous and inconceivable; stratagem and vociferation; illusion and truth. It is at this point that her work is proven to be modern, due to the fact neither the religious icon nor advertising campaign, neither the illustration of children’s books nor the phantasmagoria of cinema are able to reach the manifoldness and complexity that pushes zero and infinity beyond the boundary that demarcates theory from action, glamour from usage, aura from guidance.» Denys Zacharopoulos