About
'Mother Tongue' explores translation as inheritance, or how language, both visual and verbal, shifts and acquires meaning as it moves through a new medium.
The exhibition presents paintings and drawings by mother-daughter artists Julia Avramidis and Pia Frank-Avramidis, whose distinct practices—Julia's layered, rhythmic abstraction and Pia's biomorphic renderings of scientific systems—reveal a shared visual vocabulary passed silently between generations. Their works are then translated into a booklet of poems by six female writers responding through ekphrasis, extracting color, shape, and image to render the paintings anew in text. Mother Tongue follows this chain-reaction from mother to daughter and painting to poem, asking us to consider translation as a mode of becoming. Curated by Leonie Wisowaty
Artists
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Pia Frank-Avramidis
5 works
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Julia Avramidis
5 works
- Annemarie Avramidis
Available at Parallel Vienna
