“Should we talk better regarding getting laid?”. These were the first words of Katerina Dipla, when I contacted her to talk regarding the exhibition “Printing techniques on paper – 1 year of experimentation” that took place recently and was the result of a collective effort of expression and reflection of the YOU art ME textiles workshops, under the auspices of the Cultural Action of Brachnaeiki at the Old Primary School of Monodendri.
For Katerina Dipla, setting up an exhibition, especially an exhibition like this one, is not the end, but the beginning of a new beginning. “I feel it’s something alive, it’s a living organism” he tells us speaking to pelop.gr and her voice cannot hide both the excitement and the tension she feels for the traces she created through the workshops with her “children”, people of all ages, minors and adults. For her, they are partners and not students, as their relationship is two-way: both she and they learned and understood various things regarding themselves and more.
“I see them as my brushes” he says disarmingly, while characterizing the whole journey as an exciting journey. After all, everything is a matter of energy for Katerina Dipla, as she thinks as she creates: tearing, painting, experimenting. “I am constantly in a process, so is life” he tells us and continues: “I saw the exhibition as something alive that I didn’t want to die”. For this reason he also created a video, in order to give this living organism the opportunity to live once more, giving it the opportunity for a new beginning, a new starting point. And where can it go? “In infinity” he tells us and continues: “to begin a new beginning”.
After 20 years abroad, Katerina Dipla returned to her hometown. “I realize that it is a condition, an exciting journey” she points out when talking regarding her workshops and continues: “I don’t teach in the workshops. The way I try to convey what I say is quite personal. What I want to create is an experience. There is always a story behind it”.
She says she is now ready for the next step, which she may not yet know what it is, but she feels it is already there. “I feel like I’m at the next stage. But if you ask me if and what will happen, I’ll tell you that I’m leaving wherever he takes me.”
THE EXHIBITION
The works of the exhibition were divided in the space into eight parts, three of which were interactive:
- Improvised brushes
- Objects
- Stamps
- Collage
- Color and Shape
- Flowers
- Fruit and vegetables
- Summer
The works of the student-creators dominated the space. Imprints everywhere invited the viewer to embark on a journey of discovery of his own relationship with Art, to make his own collage, to print his own stamp, to write his own name.
“A three-year-old child and an adult create the same traces” he tells us and continues: “What differentiates them is their personality. Together they create a language that unites them, a primal language that everyone feels. There is no right or wrong.”
She cannot hide her emotion, thanking her students with whom, as she notes, a special dynamic has been created. At the same time, he thanks the Cultural Action of Vrachnai for the opportunity of the workshops, the support and help for the realization of the exhibition, as well as the Stavropoulio Foundation, the Municipality of Patreon and Yiannis Kozioris for the space of the exhibition (Old Primary School of Monodendri) as well as and for all the help and cooperation.
“From the bottom of my heart I thank everyone, for the way everyone reacted. There was a lot of emotion. Apart from whether they liked it or not, the exhibition was like the cards were wrapped around them and made them happy” he emphasizes.
WEAVE
Immovable and extremely creative, Katerina Dipla already, as she told us, is in the next stage. And the name of this WEAVES, an acrogram.
Fabric
and Screen printing: the process of transferring an image from an object to fabric.
Teaching Silk Screen and the various printing techniques on fabric and paper.
Nature
The natural environment is an endless source of inspiration, foundation and support.
Creative workshops unfold in nature, whose study and goods are tools and materials in our hands to realize wonderful designs and patterns to create textiles.
Discover
Through workshops-YOU art ME textiles, seminars and various collaborations, we invite you on a journey of discovery of pattern design for textiles.
Explore the dynamics of patterns, their limitless possibilities and endless combinations through traditional techniques and methods in a digital world.
Together we will study not only traditional but also modern techniques of various cultures, while tracing the history of Greek weaving.
Stories
Thread
YF A I N O is connected by a commercial, artistic and educational thread
So
To be an impetus and a prompt for all of us, young and old, to express ourselves creatively!
We believe that pattern making is a great tool capable of building amazing experiences, inspiring, shaping relationships and consciousnesses.
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