Studio Visit: Konstantina Stamatiadis

“And in these cases, the archive, both from a literal point of view and a metaphorical one, can be understood as the legitimizing place for cultural history.” (Anna Maria Guasch, 2005)

Thoughts

Thoughts

The archive is the subject that mobilizes Konstantina´s artistic investigation. Her project, based on the collection, revision, documentation and cataloging of artistic material, is working to create a massive database of the art of the region. A sort of Wikipedia of Costa Rican art and artists, with the intention to expand itself to the Central American region. At the same time, it questions the lack of platforms that generate the continual and necessary supply of processes, CVs, and artistic material, among others, in our context.

Unchartered territory for Konstantina, as relevant as the artistic production whose task is to make information accessible, to catalogue and organize material, the project is accompanied by a prototype of an art review generating literature that contains important information about artists, works and other relevant actors. The archive confronts its very method, a complex process that she has decided to inaugurate with material by the artist Hector Burke.

Information

Information

Konstantina Stamatiadis was born in 1989 in San José, where she lives and works. Learn more about Stamatiadis on Instagram or Facebook, or contact her by e-mail.

The artist is part of the residency program La última which starts on May 2018.