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Get matched →ARCAthens Virtual Residency #1 is a virtual residency program featuring two inaugural fellows: Blanka Amezkua from the Bronx, New York, and Eirene Efstathiou from Athens, Greece. The residency took the form of an Instagram visual conversation that took place from June 1–June 30, 2020, in which the two artists shared work and engaged in dialogue around themes of location, collective memory, sentiment, and social issues.
Blanka Amezkua is an artist, cultural promoter, educator, and project creator based in the South Bronx with exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Queens Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and other institutions. She currently operates AAA3A (Alexander Avenue Apartment 3A), an artist-run project offering food, dialogue, workshops, and art in her living room. Eirene Efstathiou is a visual artist living in Athens, Greece, working in painting, printmaking, performance, and small-scale installations. She is an MFA graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts and a PhD candidate there. Her practice investigates collective and archival memory, sentiment, and affect in the public sphere.
The residency featured an Instagram conversation between the two fellows, with weekly themes. Week 1 focused on Location, during which the artists shared images, artworks, and reflections responding to their respective contexts in the Bronx and Athens, including commentary on contemporary social movements and local history.
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