Museum of Classical Archaeology and the artists

Topos Embodied: Beauty Constructs and Female Landscape

Tue 25 July 2023 - Fri 15 September 2023

Museum of Classical Archaeology

Recent mothers and founders of Paros Creatives Justyna Borucka and Cat Vitebsky respond to MOCA's cast collection via a return to the original marble quarry on Paros, the source of the marble from which so many ancient Greek masterpieces were sculpted. Theirs is a return, also, to the human figure through the idea of topos (in Greek, ?????), exploring layers of time and transformation in myth, in the material of the marble itself, and in the worldview of the people of Paros today.

Paros Creatives
Justyna Borucka and Cat Vitebsky are both founding members of Paros Creatives, a unique collaborative project of all-female members working across and between both Greece and the UK. They met as students at the University of the Arts, London in 2006, where they questioned the rejection of humanism and beauty in modernist and postmodernist artistic practices. In 2019 they created the collective Paros Creatives, which has since expanded into an exciting female-led, collaborative interdisciplinary project exploring the Parian marble quarry and its surrounding landscapes through the lens of beauty, womanhood and motherhood.

The Paros Creatives are:

Justyna Borucka, mixed-media artist
Cat Vitebsky, sculptor
Maria Birmpili, geologist
Moshoula Capous-Desyllas, sociologist
Anastasia Kanli, philologist
Vassia Katseria, videographer
Elena Symeonidou, ecologist

Cost: Free