Volumes, 2022
Two-person exhibition with Maia Ruth Lee, Lane Meyer Projects, Denver, Colorado, USA, August 19 - September 25, 2022
Originally from Limassol, Cyprus, Marina Kassianidou’s practice is centered around mark and surface. In A Partial History III, she began with a well worn school book handed down by her Cypriot grandmother. Humble and tattered, partially disintegrated pages touched by her ancestors’ fingers bare the traces of use, and in those marks a unique physical language emerges. From her set of two inherited school books, Kassianidou has meticulously traced the silhouette of each worn page in what serves as a documentation between the lines; absent of written language, folds, creases, tears, stains, discolorations, and wormholes contain their own content.
(Excerpt from text by Marsha Mack)
This work revolves around two of my late grandmother Koralia’s schoolbooks. I “translated” each book into a large drawing, 10x the dimensions of the book. I drew all the marks of use and time from the odd pages of each book on one side of the paper and all the marks from the even pages on the other side.
