Maria Papadimitriou
∗1957, Greece
lives and works in Athens and Volos, Greece
Maria Papadimitriou(*1957, Greece) is known for participatory projects and collective activities that highlight the connection between art and social reality. Questions of identity, social integration and exclusion are recurring themes in her work.For the Biennale Gherdëina 7, Maria Papadimitriou created a walk-in sculpture entitled Disco for One as a tribute to Ortisei-based disco music legend and film music producer Giorgio Moroder. A small Alpine hut, a typical architecture of the South Tyrolean Dolomites in miniature format, has been appropriated by the artist and transformed into a haunting room, pervaded by Disco music, open to be enjoyed by a single visitor at a time. Above the entrance to the hut, the neon sign Disco for One encourages visitors to enter. By turning a collective everyday experience, namely collective dancing, into a solitary, self-centred entertainment, Maria Papadimitriou’s project appears prophetic. The current pandemic and the social distancing imposed by it altered our behaviour and the understanding of our social setting. Papadimitriou’s proposal offers a witty alternative and at the same time she draws an ironic, yet perhaps realistic scenario for a possible future of the entertainment industry and of social cohabitation.
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