Lick

For Cancel
Installation​

Platforms project
Athens School of Fine Arts
2021

Το lick είναι μια γλυπτική εγκατάσταση με μικτά μέσα: πηλό, video, και έτοιμα υλικά. Ένα διχασμένο σώμα: σύγχρονο – αρχετυπικό και ταυτόχρονα υβριδικό σε σχέση με τα υλικά και το φύλο, θωπεύεται από μια γιγάντια γλώσσα. Το έργο αυτό εν μέσω της πανδημίας, όπου οι επαφές, και ιδίως αυτές με το σάλιο, αποθαρρύνονται ή και απαγορεύονται, προβάλει την σχεδόν προκλητική επαφή με την γλώσσα σαν εμμονική πράξη, και ταυτόχρονα σαν γκροντέσκ εικόνα. Ένας ονειρικός συμβολισμός που με την επανάληψή του (την ακούραστη επανάληψη της κίνησης της γλώσσας) γίνεται ζωτικός ρυθμικός παλμός, ζωοδόχος. Η μολυσματικότητα αποδίδεται σαν έκρηξη ζωής σαν διαμόρφωση, σαν η γλώσσα- όψιμος γλύπτης να διαμορφώνει το σώμα και το σώμα, ο κορμός με τα πολλά ζουμερά βυζιά, τρέφει-ξεδιψάει με την σειρά του την γλώσσα. Αυτή η “ανταποδοτικότητα” είναι υπεύθυνη για την ισορροπία του συστήματος. Δεν είναι απλά ότι το μολυσματικό στοιχείο δεν εξολοθρεύει τον ξενιστή του για να μην, με την σειρά του, εξαφανισθεί, αλλά για μια γνήσια συνύπαρξη, γιαυτό και το γιγάντιο μέγεθος της γλώσσας. Το lick δεν αφορά μονάχα το σώμα, λειτουργεί επίσης σαν μια μεταφορά. Ο (για μερικούς) αηδιαστικός χαρακτήρας του, επισημαίνει το γεγονός της ολοένα απομάκρυνσης μας από την σωματικότητα.
LICK” is a sculptural installation with mixed media: clay, video, and ready-made materials. A divided body: contemporary – archetypal and at the same time hybrid in terms of materials and gender, is veiled by a giant tongue. This work in the midst of a pandemic, where contact, especially that with saliva, is discouraged or even forbidden, projects the almost provocative contact with language as an obsessive act, and at the same time as a grotesque image. A dreamlike symbolism that, with its repetition (the tireless repetition of the movement of the tongue) becomes a vital rhythmic pulse, life-giving. The infectiousness is rendered as an explosion of life as a shaping, as if the tongue- late sculptor shapes the body and the body, the torso with its many breasts, in turn nourishes-unfolds the tongue. This “reciprocity” is responsible for the balance of the system. It is not simply that the contaminant does not annihilate its host so that it, in turn, does not disappear, but for a genuine coexistence, hence the gigantic size of the tongue. The lick is not only about the body, it also functions as a metaphor. Its (for some) disgusting character points to the fact of our increasing distance from corporeality.

Zoi Pirini is an artist who lives and works in Athens and Loutraki, Greece.
She is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts (Athens 2003).
From 2003 to 2013, she has been working with the concept of Lighting design (visual and architectural), having carried out studies and projects in Greece and abroad. In 2011 she founded Lab2Art, an art school  which she runs until today. She is a member of the artistic group ”For Cancel”, founder of Festivart and co-founder of the artistic | research platform “TILT platform”. In 2020 she designs the educational platform “futureboards” which will be implemented in 2021 with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Education of Greece.
She is a member of the Greek Chamber of Fine Arts.

Zoi, uses a variety of expressive media, such as painting, photography, video, sculpture, etc. while processing her works. 

She has presented her work in several exhibitions in Greece and abroad with the most recent ones being the following

2025

∙“Breath” | sculpture

Exhibition “The Emper’s song” // MISC Athens

Curated by Sylvia Sachini & Florent Frizet

2024

∙“Lost in stars” | Installation

Exhibition “We are all made of stars” // MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts,

Curated by Domna Gounari, MOMus Curator

For Cancel

∙Presents part of her work ” Parasites ” | Sculpures.

Platforms project | Public Tabacco Factory, Athens.

∙Presents part of her work ” Clean Cuts ” // Acrylics on canvas.

Art Athina | Zappeion Hall, Mama Contemprary, Athens.

2023

∙Presents part of her work “Family Portraits” // Acrylics on canvas.

Art Athina | Zappeion Hall, Mama Contemprary, Athens .

∙Presents the works  “Rejected” // Video  and  “Through the Wasteland // Video “For Cancel”

Exhibition: “1922 – 2022  Exit – Way out ” former Public Tabacco Factory, Athens.

2022

∙Presents part of her work “The Human Gaze” // Oils on Linen.

Art Athina | Zappeion Hall, Mama Contemprary, Athens .

∙”JOIN US” Installation

| Platforms project | School of Fine Arts, Athens,

“For Cancel”.

∙”Go Plastic” // “Be Immortal”, installation.

Exhibition: Safe Mode // Amplified Realities. Tilt Platform at Project Gallery, Athens. «For Cancel» [ Zoi Pirini | Takis Zerdevas | Makis Faros].

∙Presents part of her work “Organics” // Sculptures .

Hellenic Foundation for Culture, Athens.

2021

∙”Force Majeure”, Installation

Exhibition: “Symbols and iconic ruins”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.

∙”Lick” Installation

Exhibition: Platforms project, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens.

∙”Within” Installation

Exhibition: “Symplexis” Paphos, Cyprus.

∙”Through the wasteland” Video

Miden Festival | gallery [.BOX], Milan.
“For Cancel” | Takis Zedevas | Zoe Pyrini | Makis Faros).

2020

∙”Gridfields” Installation,

[ Zoi Pirini & Makis Faros ]

Exhibition: Theorimata (On History),
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.

2019

∙”Orphanes Images” // photo collage,

Norrkoping City Museum, Sweden.

∙”Après vous” // installation

Exhibition: Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens.

∙”Hospital Interns” // video installation

[ For Cancel ] Exhibition: “IASIS” Tilt Platform, Loutraki, Greece.

∙ “Lines” // Light installation, In Situ installation

within the context of Ziria Music Festival. [ For Cancel & Michalis Antonopoulos ].

∙”Rooms” // In Situ installation

within the context of Ziria Music Festival. [ For Cancel & Michalis Antonopoulos ].

2018

∙”near the baseLand” // Video installation.

Solo show of the artistic group [ For Cancel ], Gallery Beton 7 Athens.

∙”Through The Wasteland” Video art

with the artistic group [ For Cancel ], Exhibition: Platforms project , Athens school of fine arts.

2014

∙ “Jazz” // Solo show | mixed media.

Jazz Loft Festival – Athens.

2013

∙Presents part of her work “Parallel Portraits” //  Oils on canvas

Vrysaki, Athens.

2011

∙Presents part of her work “traces” made between 08′ -10′

Exhibition:  “PAINT!” – Municipal Art Gallery, Korinthos, Greece

2008

∙ “in between” // Aquarells,

 Exhibition: “Lights on art” //  Corinth

2007

∙”Graduates”

Municipal Art Gallery, Mithymna, Lesvos.

2004

∙Solo exhibition

Gallery Art Space, Athens, Greece.

∙Center of Visual Arts

G. Karidis- Athens, Greece.

2003

∙ Thesis presentation // Graduates –

Athens school of fine arts – Athens, Greece.

1999

∙Group exhibition –

Municipal Art Gallery, Mytilene, Lesvos.