Pares Mallis with her painting “Pool I" 2003
Pares
Mallis brought some new energy to the Jill Yakas Gallery when she exhibited
her series of Marriage Boxes in a group show in 1999. Her boxes, with
titles such as Meat Market, Virgin Bride, The Ceremony, The Bible
Says sometimes amused, sometimes annoyed, but generally provoked
discussion among visitors to the show.
Untitled
Acrylic & Paper on Canvas
100x100cm
By 2003 she had moved on to water. 'H20 'was the artist's first one person show in Athens with Jill Yakas. The exhibition of paintings and ceramic sculpture presented imagery inspired by water microbiology, the sea and swimming pools
This body of work fictionalizes water's mysterious qualities and calls attention to the importance of water as a life support. Of her 'water packages', ceramic constructions inspired by Minoan art, the artist said:
The water packages represent the future of water.. With man's continuous disregard of one of our greatest resources clean water will become a rarity. These packages are my version of unspoiled water.
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