In her new solo exhibition, Stathopoulou presents an entire range of constructions - assemblage, with simple cheap materials and wood, and creates a world that seems to come straight out of the images of the works of Frida Kahlo and Latin American culture and art.
It is a world with unique style that combines a collage of recognisable elements from the Greek tradition of recent decades. Old items made of wood - shrines, frames, pieces of old furniture and toys up to the shoeblack's crib - are the raw material in which the artist has intervened either by painting or by adding other ready-made materials such as old cans, decorative items made of paper or plastic, while giving them a new dimension and - more essentially - a new aesthetic.
Out of images of Virgin Mary or the Saints that acquire a modern, human condition, the symbolic elements, plastic fruit in a sort of still life, the egg, the clock, the mask, the Greek flag, combined with fragments of old packaging of EPSA orange juice, Loumidis coffee, Kalamata olives etc., new objects-compositions come to life in a surrealistic style combining different cultures and different memories, all of which are favorite images in the artist's memory. The goal is for all these old objects to acquire, through artistic creation, a new artistic identity and therefore a new life as a pop - baroque patchwork of a joyous/melancholic, but in any case nostalgic world turning into a picture.

The artist refers to her work:
"I have an unexpected room full of treasures that I have been collecting for years.
I have a wall full of good gazing, people laughing or conjuring up a miracle.
I have pictures of soldiers with phrases such as "Goodbye my brother. I will go give a shot at living" at the back. And next to that:  "Souvenir of the soldier Georgiou Anthidi shot at the Fort Kehl Kaya, on April 6th, 1941".
I have doors of old churches thrown on cliffs.
I have pictures from Mexico where the pain explodes into a thousand colors.
I have buttons. I have forms of pastry with traces of burnt sugar. I have tins whose content was consumed by the sea or on name day festivities.
I have a small transistor similar to the one the seamstress heard on the island while eating watermelon.
I have the red shoes from my childhood, which Mr. Zacharias used to polish so very quickly moving his brushes up and down until I almost went mad.
How I'd like these items to come back to the palace from which time has condemned them to exile.
I reckon that, perhaps, if others love them too, they may claim a second life.
And since I primped them, I decided to expose them.. "

Duration: Until May 28th, 2011.