making things is a collaboration with objects
you make something and it becomes itself
you start a conversation with that new self
you give it a name and change its name
then the name has a self and with the new name it becomes a new self and the
conversation continues
and becomes confused
and becomes clearer with all its shifting beauty, ugliness, difficulty
with all the associations it carries, it becomes something bigger
and you look at it

(D.M.)

Astrakhan, (a kind of sheep also known as Karakul), whose leather and fur were used in the 1950s for making coats symbolizes self-invention, and is a starting point from which to look at Maganias new artworks. The fur as a material and the construction become the reason to re-connect with our roots, our ancestors, and our self.

In the show there will also be works on canvas referring to the architectural space that surrounds us a theme that the artist has been working with in her practice a two-dimensional surface, becoming almost three-dimensional due to the incised texture, which forms tiles or spaces of indeterminate height or depth.

DeAnna Maganias was born in Washington DC. She has had solo exhibitions in Rome and New York, and participated in group exhibitions at the National Theatre of Greece, the Museum of Cycladic Art, the Prague Biennale, the Macro Museum in Rome, and the 2004 Outlook exhibition in Athens, among others. Her work is in the collections of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece, Macro Museum in Rome and Marta Museum in Herford, Germany and in the private collections of Neon and Deste. In 2010 she was awarded the first prize for the monument for the victims of the Holocaust in Athens.