Office Drawings, 2014, Installation view from the solo exhibition Of Time And at Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, UK

Installation detail from the solo exhibition Of Time And at Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, UK

Office Documents, 2014, installation view from the exhibition Afresh, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, cur. Daphne Vitali, Daphne Dragona, Tina Pandi.

Office Drawings, 2011, Installation view from the exhibition The Working Title, cur. by Vincenzo De Bellis and Bruna Roccasalva at Peephole, Milan | IT

Office Drawings, 2011, Installation detail, A4 digital prints

The copy, 2010, looped digital copy, A4 paper, metal shelf

Office Documents, 2015, Studio shot at Crusader Mill, Manchester | UK

The exhibition Of Time And took as its base the creative possibilities emerging through technical devices of common environments and especially those forming the diptych Work-Leisure. With an extensive presentation of an up-to-date selection of the Office Drawings, the installation addressed the possibilities of extending and even diverting the typical functions in an office environment.

The drawings have been created in Microsoft Office Word, a programme typical for text composition and presentation design. The range of ‘creative tools’ offered by the popular product became the base for the development of a group of digital files which reflect at the same time a fusion of the cultural qualities of the institutions of Leisure and Work.

Sheer geometric forms and monochromatic surfaces allude to the post WW1-2 revolutionary tendencies in art, that of abstraction and functionalism and their social ambition to use unifying symbols and introduce new qualities in everyday life.

The extracts of text included in the drawings unify memories of typical office orders or life scenes.

The Working Title- A two persons’ show with Pavel Büchler
11 Feb – 26 Mar 2011 | Peep Hole, Milan/ IT

The Office Drawings series(2009-ongoing) has developed around the combination of the concepts of work, creativity and individuality at the office space. The drawings are crafted entirely using the Microsoft Office Word programme appropriate for text formation, expanding the programme’s communicative possibilities. Switching their materiality from digital to printable in multiple reproductions, the drawings re-address themes of uniqueness (value) and skill akin to the drawing practice.