Bernier/Eliades Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition Brittle Connections, by Lillian Lykiardopoulou, on Thursday, April 6, 2023, 18:00 – 21:00.

Lillian Lykiardopoulou is a graduate of ASFA from Yale University and her work has been exhibited in New York, Italy and South Korea. This is the artist’s second solo show in Athens and her first with Bernier/Eliades Gallery.

In Brittle Connections the artist will present two sets of works, a series of wall-mounted ceramic sculptures and a series of site-specific sculptures in colored clay and porcelain.

Lykiardopoulou’s works bear witness to her personal exploration of the possibilities of the material she is using, as well as her themes, which she draws from the urban landscape and her personal life. This series witness her evolution from a more conceptual art (Loop Ahead) into matter, based on an emotional processing of her observations, without the works losing their humour and sense of the absurd.

According to the artist the new exhibition, is divided this into three series or three starting points.

“The first series is about the grids in orange and it started by observing the grids that exist in the streets of Athens when construction projects are taking place.

I saw them as open wounds of the urban environment that remain permanently open and exposed and when they are closed (if), they open again. So, I made a series of grids in different sizes with different geometric shapes but with this orange colour as a common denominator that warns you of a state of constant waiting.

Again by observing elements in the city I was interested in some pipes in front of apartment buildings (very often in pairs) used to ventilate basements. I started a series of projects starting from these pipes that resembled periscopes.  With the use of clay or porcelain these shapes became more organic and I often placed them in inter action.

The third series is about works I made with the sense of protection-defence and passive-aggression in mind. I was looking at animals with scales, exoskeletal insect shells, claws, cuticles, i.e. something hard protecting something soft and fleshy.”