Book Launch: LOS AND CHRIS. ODE TO FRIENDSHIP by Yorgia Karidi

Hyper Hypo and the publishing houses MASTOS and Untitled-1 invite you to a book launch soiree for the presentation of LOS AND CHRIS. ODE TO FRIENDSHIP by Yorgia Karidi. The evening will include a brief presentation and a video screening about the edition, while individuals associated with the publication will take part in a live drawing session and open decks. Angelos kyriou will curate the music for the event.

The publication includes fragments from the personal archive of Yorgia Karidi and is accompanied by a discussion between the artist and Danae Stefanou, based on Yorgia’s practice in the context of the book.

It is a book about intimacy, memory, and the language of connection and creation. The material includes paintings and ceramics, performances, found objects, memories, snapshots of Athens, and visual scores – a constellation of gestures that reflects Yorgia’s distinct gaze and traces a strong, lived imprint on the reception and feedback of both the visual and inter/personal alphabet and the artistic process itself.

The book is the result of a months-long collaboration between Yorgia Karidi and publishers Viktor Gogas and Sofia Zoitou, aimed at materializing Yorgia’s world into an object that resonates aesthetically with its contents. Its narrative unfolds in a way that transforms individual works into a coherent whole, with rhythm and evolution, whose varied layers are further emphasized through the materiality of the publication itself. Each image featured in the book is accompanied by a corresponding caption at the end of this bilingual edition.

YORGIA KARIDI is an Athenian artist, musician and performer. Her live sets/compositions focus on vocals and her intermedia practice includes painting, sculpture, video and verbal scores. Her collaborations cover a wide range of artists and genres. She has curated live radio shows, lent her voice to radio spots, and worked on theatre productions, experimental, feature and documentary films, as an editor, a composer and a performer. Most recently, she participated in the ensemble Athens3000, for Jazz@Megaron whereas in the last months she has been focusing her practice on painting.