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Iris Touliatou - Aesthetic services circa 2025, 2025
For three days, Aesthetic services circa 2025, 2025, a hairdressing public service is offered free of charge for the citizens of Durrës. Conceived as a conceptual and performative work by artist Iris Touliatou, the project reimagines acts of care, intimacy, and exchange within urban and institutional frameworks.
Dates and times
April 11 to 13, 14:00 to 17:00
Address
Port of Durrës
Working across disciplines, Touliatou explores infrastructures, function, attachment, and desire, questioning the conditions of artistic production and the contexts in which it unfolds. In Durrës, she collaborates with a local hairdresser to offer cuts and styles by the sea, within the port, a site of passage, commerce, and transformation. Through this ephemeral gesture, Aesthetic services circa 2025, 2025 blurs the boundaries between art, labor, and everyday rituals, inviting participants to a subtle metamorphosis as both an act of service and a fleeting moment of connection
Aesthetic services circa 2024, 2024 Hairdresser, mirror, chair, bather, cutting cape Performed in Anafi on June 27, 28, 29 2024 by Fotis Mestousakis as part of Phenomenon 5.
Iris Touliatou
Iris Touliatou works across various disciplines which are necessary for each intervention. Examining infrastructures and function, attachment and desires, the public and private, Touliatou explores the relationships between social structures and people’s practices and raises questions on the conditions of artistic production and the institutional frames within which it exists. She lives and works in Athens, Greece.
She recently had solo exhibitions at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (2024); Peer, London; fluent, Santander; and Kunsthalle Basel (all 2023), as well as at Grazer Kunstverein (2022). Her work has been included in the group exhibitions Key Operators, Kunstverein München, Munich (2024) ; Phenomenon 5, Anafi (2024) ; Intimate confession is a project, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston (2023); forms of the surrounding futures, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg (2023); Siren (some poetics), Amant, NYC (2022); When I state I am an anarchist, PLATO, Ostrava (2022); the New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, NYC (2021); the 7th Athens Biennial, Eclipse (2021); Anti Structure, DESTE Foundation (2021); The Same River Twice, Benaki Museum, Athens (2019); among others
Stathis Mamalakis
