matina galati's exhibition closing w/ eiger drums propaganda & oko dj

Matina Galati is a Greek artist, with a background in landscape architecture. She works with a variety of mediums, including painting, illustration, printed matter, photography and writing. This night, Matina joins us in person with a custom video work, and celebrates the closing of her beautiful exhibition over the past two months at murmur
From 20 onwards, French Athens-based music oracle OKO DJ teams up with partner and psychedelia mastermind producer Eiger Drums Propaganda for some off-kilter selection.
Her latest work titled “Her home is a village, her home is a crossroads”, is a collection of oil paintings on paper and photographs. The work explores the relationship of plants with memories and collective histories of the built environment. Her autobiographical images depict painted and written memories, merging personal with collective narratives and offering an intuitive insight on everyday life in Greece. The antithesis between her rural roots and the densely urbanized environment she grew up in, reveal internal and shared contradictions that coexist, as well as the unbroken ties with the “village” and the countryside which are inherent in her culture.
The global processes that have followed the greek financial crisis, are transforming home into something unfamiliar. How do we hold on to our collective memory? Could plants protect our memories and help us in this journey? Athenian balconies, island shores, her grandmother’s garden, are all spaces where plants become symbolic vessels that archive the unfolding struggles between past and present.