Momentum Exhibition in Patmos

Marina and Yanis, Yanis and Marina. A couple that has
been living together for 20 years, free and without preconceptions. Belonging and yet not belonging to each
other, just as it is with art. Does the work belongs to its
creator or to its audience? Marina Coriolano-Lykourezos
and Yanis Zagorianakos live together by choice, and together chose Aegina as their home - a place where they
found the freedom they needed, the quietness of introspection, the contact with the universe and nature as it
happens, simply, without having to seek for it. They have
been working together for 12 years.
Their purpose is exploration, both in life and in art. Collective and individual. In a unique, almost mysterious way,
even their seemingly different creations meet somewhere,
in the aura they give off, in the feeling they evoke. This
is why a joint exhibition of two strong personalities, not
where they live but in Patmos, the place of spirit, relief,
contemplation. Marina’s penetrating gaze meets Yanis’s
gurgling laughter, and Yanis’s constant inner movement
touches the sensitive solidity of Marina. In this dialogue
that came at a moment of great changes and perhaps
inner jubilation.
Marina has chosen clay as her medium. With a meditative
approach, she “listens” to her material to create objects of
everyday use, trivial to most at first glance, that tell their
own story or, possibly, invite you to a personal quest. The
plate, the bowl, the cup - all containers, shallow and deep.
Surfaces open to the call for food, to moments of sharing.
All with the imprint of her breath and the memory of her
gesture. Shapes, usually round, at times rectangular or
even triangular. A surface to be coloured, decorated and
finally fired. All her ceramics are all single fired.
Yanis’s Night Blues & States of Mind, the two series he
presents here, are like an embrace of those moments
when marina is creating her own stories on clay