Near the Baseland

For Cancel
Video installation

Beton 7 Athens
2018

Δύο χώροι διατεταγμένοι σε ένα είδος αφήγησης. Over-sized origami, με τη μορφή πολεμιστών που ανοίγουν και κλείνουν την πρόσβαση. Τελικά μια συμβολική σχέση αμφιλεγόμενη και εύθραυστη, μια σχέση οριακής κυριαρχίας.Το “Near the BaseLand” αποτελεί μια μεταφορά, ή καλύτερα μια αλληγορία. Ο θεατής έρχεται αντιμέτωπος με φυσικές παρουσίες/εμπόδια, μηχανικές και εννοιακές συναρμογές, ροές και ατμόσφαιρες που οριοθετούν έναν κόσμο φαντασιακό. Ένα κόσμο σαν μια μεγέθυνση ενός δυστοπικού παιχνιδιού, ενός παραμορφωμένου παραμυθιού, ένα κόσμο επιβλητικό και ταυτόχρονα εύθραυστο, ένα κόσμο που θα πρέπει να εισχωρήσεις. Να εισχωρήσεις σαν επισκέπτης, σαν εισβολέας, σαν αγγελιοφόρος ενός άλλου κόσμου, σαν ξένος. Ένας κόσμος, μία αλληγορία για την εξουσία και τα πρόσωπα/προσωπεία της, για την οικειοποίηση από μέρους της, της τέχνης του γητευτή, ή ακόμη μία αλληγορία για την διφορούμενη έννοια της κατοχής και της ιδιοποίησης ενός θησαυρού ή μιας μαγικής ιδιότητας Το “Near the BaseLand” επίσης αποτελεί ένα είδος hacking, μια ιδιοποίηση και διαχείριση πρακτικών και συμβόλων άλλων εποχών και πολιτισμών (κυρίως του ιαπωνικού) και μάλιστα – κυρίως στην εμπορευματοποιημένη μορφή τους. Αυτή η παραχάραξη, του ήδη παραχαραγμένου σημείου και η έλξη για την ιδιοποίησή του εκφράζει μια, ίσως κίβδηλη απελευθέρωση. Μια απελευθέρωση που λειτουργεί σε σε δύο φάσεις: πρώτα έλκεσαι από το ψεύτικο και μετά παραχαράσεις αυτό που σε έλκει. Με το “Near the BaseLand” ταυτισμένοι με την εποχή μας, σχολιάζουμε την αναγκαιότητα της προσφυγής μας στο “άλλο” το “αλλοτινό” για να μιλήσουμε για το εδώ και το τώρα.
Two spaces arranged in a kind of storytelling .Over-sized origami , in the form of warriors which open and close access.Finally a symbolic relationship controversial and fragile , a relationship of marginal sovereignty. “Near the Baseland” is a metaphor ,or better allegory .The viewer is confronted with physical instances/obstacles , mechanical and conceptual hindrances, flows and atmospheres which define a world imaginary. A world like a magnification of a dystopian game, a deformed fairytale, a world imposing and at the same time fragile ,a world that you must penetrate. To invade as a visitor ,as a messenger of another world ,as a stranger.A word ,as an allegory of power and its faces, from the appropriation of the artist’s art ,or even an allegory of the ambitious concept of processing and appropriating a treasure or a magical property. “Near the Baseland” is also a kind of hacking, appropriation and management of practices and symbols of other epochs and cultures – mainly Japanese – in their commercialized form.This counterfeit, the already overturned point and the attraction for its appropriation, expresses a perhaps deliberate release. A liberation which works in two phases : first you attracted by the fake,and then you counterfeit what attracts you. Identified with our time , by the exhibition “Near the Baseland “, we comment on the necessity of our resource to “the other”, and “bygone” in order to talk about the here and now.

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.