Senyelistli is the Nahuatl word for family.  Artists that take part in senyelistli at AAA3A hail from another state or a different country.  They are artists/friends that continue to create despite all odds.  The primary reason for partaking in senyelistli is because they extend their work beyond their personal practice.  As a result of their social engagement and for the many ways they transform and influence their neighborhoods, AAA3A considers them their close senyelistli.

Mary Cox and Panagiotis Voulgaris operate FokiaNou Art Space, an artist-run project inside a small apartment in the center of Athens, Greece.  The apartment has been transformed into an open space that encourages collaborative creative efforts between Greek and foreign artists, and promotes and supports the local art community.  FokiaNou Art Space was initiated in the spring of 2014.  We hope you will join us to learn more about this unique space in Athens, discover the artists' personal work and have the opportunity to meet them since they will be present during the opening and throughout the run of their show.

For Athenian Topographies artist Panagiotis Voulgaris through an installation of photographs and two videos, presents a series of ephemeral interventions that took place on the hill of Lycabettus, the highest point of Athens, during the pandemic lockdown in a period of four months.  These were artworks made of masking tapes on the branches on the trees with a lifespan that varied from 45 minutes to 6 hours, before being removed and recycled, depending on the time Voulgaris spent in the area walking by making use of the B6 code, which was the only one allowed by the government to go outside for exercising during that pandemic.  In contrast to Voulgaris' urban focus artist Mary Cox seeks out forgotten places and unnoticed details in the southern suburbs of Athens.  Scenes from Athens' former, now abandoned airport recall another era, one more promising of an upward trajectory, as do the old, not-quite-abandoned houses in what used to be a fishing village.  She records the cumulative effects of the inability to maintain public infrastructure, in sharp contrast with the proliferation of new apartment buildings.  The subjects receive a face-lift through the inevitable smoothing over of bumps, cracks and rust that occurs with the age-old technique of classical oil painting on small canvases.

images - left: Mary Cox | right:Panagiotis Voulgaris

Mary Cox is an American painter living and working in Greece since 1993.  She holds a MFA from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco.  She has shown her work in galleries in Greece and abroad since 1999.  Over the years she has taken up different subject matter and used a range of media, from a mixed-media series on migration which was selected for a biennial in Lulea, Sweden in 2011, to photo-realistic paintings of suburban vernacular architecture.  Since 2016 she has co-directed the alternative artist-run FokiaNou Art Space, curating over 50 exhibitions and participating in international fairs for artist-run spaces.

web: artbymarycox.com

Panagiotis Voulgaris' main work is articulated through installations and interventions in archaeological sites, old buildings, in public space and the landscape.  He has participated in exhibitions and residencies in Greece, Italy, Malta, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Austria, Turkey, Brazil and the USA.  Since 2016 he has organized more than 50 exhibitions in FokiaNou Art Space, co-curating a significant number of them, alongside with talks, workshops and other events.  Panos is a visual artist, curator and co-director of FokiaNou Art Space in Athens, Greece.  He holds a Master's degree with distinction in Art and Architecture from the University of East London and a BA in Fine Arts from Middlesex University.

web: panagiotisvoulgaris.myportfolio.com