Red Carpet Projects → Exhibition opening — Sweet Movie
Saturday October 11, 18:00 ─ 21:00
“Sweet Movie” Inspired by Dušan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie, this six-artist exhibition unfolds as a fractured theatre of the body. Identity is performed, consumed, and dismantled. Aggelos Papadimitriou’s deepfakes possess history itself, layering faces until authenticity collapses. Antoine Chaudet presents a stillbirth in tar: innocence suffocated, the future murdered by the past. Phaedra Karantzou’s beheaded head makes the gaze a crime of complicity. Karoline Schneider’s wet-plate portraits capture the body raw, theatrical, and quietly unsettling. Mandy Starrr’s world distort childhood, nationalism, and power. Shawty Papi’s cakes: sexuality here isn't a climax but a cycle, a ritual of sweetness and erasure.
Artists: Aggelos Papadimitriou, Antoine Chaudet, Phaedra Karantzou, Karoline Schneider, Mandy Starrr, Shawty Papi
| Curated by Kimona Venieri |
Visiting hours:
Continues after the festival
Tuesday to Saturday, 18-21:00
Solomou 14, 106 83, Exarcheia Open in Maps
Kimona Marika Venieri Vassilaki is an artist and curator. She studied film and psychology at Brooklyn College and is the founder of Red Carpet Project Space in Exarcheia,
Athens. An independent platform for experimental art, dialogue, and community. Her inaugural exhibition, The Seven Planets, brought together seven international artists to explore pressing cultural and political realities. Since 2017, Kimona has been closely involved with the Mykonos Biennale, founded by Lydia Venieri, an international festival where artists, filmmakers, and thinkers gather in dialogue between history, mythology, and contemporary practice.
As both artist and curator, her practice is rooted in the liberation of imagination. She collects images, melodies, sensations, dialogues, and ideas. Montaging poetry into video, into life, into everyday play. For her, art is not only expression but a vessel of solidarity, a way of telling through an empathetic rage, where private memory becomes shared resistance. Her works Dido and The Waiting Room have been presented in international independent film festivals.
In the spirit of the Biennale’s statement : “to create a dialogue between history, mythology, and the urgent present”… her work aims to transform intimacy into a communal act of resistance and the urgency for existence.