What is ENTER?
Α series of artworks created within 120 hours commissioned by the Onassis Foundation
How does a dancer dance in his kitchen? How many images capture the eyes of a director, when he spends most of his time on his couch? Is the entire house a scene? We enter in order to see. As guests. You too. ENTER
The ΕΝΤΕR project is not another quarantine diary, but a series of original works created in the conditions of the “here and now” in order to surpass it and bring us together through the world of our digital platforms.
Onassis Stegi and Onassis USA commission artists across the globe to prepare new works within 120 hours. The thought behind it is that we need to include and understand the present, to learn from it, to narrate and banish it, at the same time creating a digital time capsule, which will preserve the memory of this period for future generations.During the pandemic time-space, houses, apartments, gardens, roof-terraces and balconies become our new site-specific stages. Children, husbands and wives, grandparents, roommates, even pets become, alongside their household goods, characters and props, as the artist’s laptop is turned into a creative superpower.
With these works we champion and support the artists who we believe will articulate our future, and enable them to stride forward in new forms. These artists (and their families, pets and homes!) represent a diverse array of ideas, genres, disciplines and histories—both familiar and new to the Onassis Foundation.
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600 Highwaymen, Maria Antelman, Kimberly Bartosik, Annie Dorsen, Kathryn Hamilton (SisterSylvester), Emily Johnson, Risa Puno, Radiohole, Isabella Rossellini & Paul Magid, Akira Takayama, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Kareem Kalokoh – ATH Kids, RootlessRoot, Vasilis Kekatos, Lena Kitsopoulou, Maria Papadimitriou, Kostis Stafylakis, Theo Triantafyllidis & Alexis Fidetzis, Efthimis Filippou, Antonis Foniadakis, Daniel Wetzel, Isabella Rossellini & Paul Magid, Ziad Antar, Evi Kalogiropoulou, Kareem Kalokoh, Akira Takayama, Risa Puno & Avi Dobkin, Nadia Q. Ahmad, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Pichchenda Bao, Nana Brew-Hammond, Jared Harel, Abeer Y. Hoque, Joseph O. Legaspi, Robert Ostrom, KC Trommer, Samita Sinha, Frisly Soberanis, Alina Tenser & Gabo Camnitzer, Xin Liu.
From Manhattan to Brooklyn, from Athens to Berlin, from the Vardousia Mountain to Beirut, from Cephalonia’s Karantinata to London, artists from all over the world welcome us to their homes. Each one, but ultimately all together, create a series of works that beam from their living room over to ours, bringing the message that art cancels out distance.
