Ioanna Pantazopoulou in the NADA Gardens
Ice Palace Studios in Miami, FL
December 7-10, 2017
Pantazopoulouls Hammock Sculptures were suspended along the lawn of Ice Palace
Studios, each unique from the other. The artist playfully utilized the concept of the
hammock as a vessel for metamorphosis. Each work combines unexpected objects and overlaps
realities in a maximizing effect. Woven climbing rope, tin cans, elastic bikinis, faux chrysanthe-
mums, wool carpets, slide film, all build together in a shrine like display. Viewers were invited to
interact with the work; slumping, lounging, curling, and relaxing are all encouraged in order to
fully perceive the installation. The happenstance of the material assemblages embody luck and
superstition while also creating new connections between the past and the present, of what is
lost and found.
