December 2024 | Clotheslines

Uniformed Bodies Launch

Presentation of the book Uniformed Bodies

The launch of the Clotheslines publicationUniformed Bodiestook place on Friday, 17 February 2023, 18:00–20:00, at Hyper Hypo bookstore in Athens, with the participation of contributors to the edition. The book was presented by the editors and founders of Clotheslines, Meti Tsoukatou and Eleftheria Arapoglou.

Speakers included visual artist Maria Varella, lawyer Spyros Koulocheris, member of the group “Dress and the Law,” visual artist Mary Thivaiou, and art curator Kika Kyriakakou.
Musician Aris Siafas participated with a vocal performance.

Presentation by art curator Kika Kyriakakou, *The* free *diving of Ama*. Clothing customs, *ecofeminism*and *mythic femininities of the Japanese ocean*

Vocal performance *Ama(l)lia* by Aris Siafas.

Παρουσίαση της εικαστικού Μαρίας Βαρελά του έργου *All the Birds*, 2021.

Παρουσίαση από τον δικηγόρο Σπύρο Κουλοχέρη, *η «στολή υπηρεσίας» του Έλληνα δικηγόρου.* Video still από το έργο της εικαστικού Μαίρης Θηβαίου *The perfect analogue in three acts, 2021.*

Uniformed Bodies

A publication of fashion, art, and discourse, inspired by the sartorial element of the uniform

*Tell Me (Dur)*, 2021, Yorgos Maraziotis.
Photo from DUR Escape Land archive.

Uniformed Bodies is a collective publication that seeks to explore the sartorial element of the uniform. Twenty-three contributors from diverse fields — fashion designers, visual artists, dress historians, museologists, photographers, curators, theorists, performers, researchers, and legal scholars — engage in a dialogue with the various aspects and functions of this distinctive clothing category. Different types of uniforms and the issues they evoke are highlighted and reinterpreted through texts and works of various media, forms, and temperaments.

Browse the publication at www.uniformedbodies.gr

*Amal(l)ia*, 2002–2022, Aris Siafas.
Photo: Rallou Panagiotou.

Contributors
2WO+1NE=2 (Valisia Gkotsi, Stella Panagopoulou), Eleftheria Arapoglou, Maria Varela, Tania Veliskou, ENDYMA (Michael Kardamakis), Olga Evangelidou, Mary Thivaiou, Eftychia Karamolegkou, Kika Kyriakakou, Apostolos Lampropoulos, Yorgos Maraziotis, Yiorgos Mavropoulos, “Dress and Law” Group (Chrysoula Kapartzianni, Spyros Koulocheris, Myrsini Pichou), SERAPIS, Aris Siafas, Spyros Staveris, Meti Tsoukatou

Editorial coordination:
Clotheslines (Meti Tsoukatou, Eleftheria Arapoglou)

Publication design:
Em Kei, Thodoris Dimitropoulos

Text editing and proofreading:
Dimitra-Eirini Papanikolaou

Uniformed Bodies was printed in January 2023 at G. Kostopoulos Printing House.

Ελευθερία Αράπογλου, Γιώργος Μαυρόπουλος, *Εφεδρικό σχέδιο*, 2022

The publication was produced with the financial support and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Publisher: CLOTHESLINES Athens, 2023

ISBN: 978-618-85425-0-1

Humanization

Participation in the interdisciplinary project Transformations

Clotheslines participated with the work Humanization in the digital collective publication Transformations: Arts and Fairy Tales. A Contemporary Anthology, curated by Eleanna Papathanassiadi, as well as in the subsequent public exhibition programme curated by miss dialectic.

The work draws inspiration from Greek folk tales in which garments play a central role in the narrative. In such tales, clothing is rarely described in detail; it appears instead in abstract or symbolic form, acting as a bearer of meaning, a marker of identity, and an instrument of transformation.

By collecting and studying variations of the folktale type The Brothers Who Became Birds, Humanization explores two kinds of transformation: first, the transformation of raw, shapeless material into fabric and clothing; and second, the transformation of the one who wears it.

The garment (shirt / dress / gown / costume / set of clothes) was made from 58 fabric remnants — cotton, viscose, tencel, linen, and rayon — using the patchwork technique.

The work was presented at A FOREST (40 Kallidromiou St., Exarchia) in January 2023.

Curator of the exhibition programme:
miss dialectic
Editorial direction and coordination:
Eleanna Papathanassiadi

Archival research was conducted at the Centre for the Study of Greek Folklore of the Academy of Athens and the Hellenic Folklore Society.

Book Launch

Presentation of the publicationSomething that Should Have Remained Hidden, Has Come to Light

The first publication by Clotheslines — Something that Should Have Remained Hidden, Has Come to Light, a photographic book dedicated to Digitaria, the independent fashion house founded by Eleftheria Arapoglou — was launched on Wednesday, 15 September 2021, from 17:00 to 22:00, at the cultural venue Metaphor_Athens.

The book presentation was accompanied by an exhibition of photographic compositions curated by the visual artist Hope, and a video installation by photographer Yiorgos Mavropoulos. The first thirty copies available for purchase included an original artwork curated by Hope.

Cabinet for Dress Tales

Research for a portable exhibition unit

The Cabinet for Dress Tales is a portable exhibition unit designed to host small-scale, itinerant exhibitions centred on dress and clothing.

Designed in 2021 by architect Haris Biskos, based on a concept and research by Clotheslines, the unit represents the first stage of a broader programme focused on collecting and presenting stories of dress materiality beyond the conventional spatial boundaries of museums and galleries. It aims to reach specific communities and contexts through adaptable formats of display.

Functionally, the unit meets all required specifications for the temporary storage and exhibition of historical garments. It is durable, lightweight, and easy to assemble. It can accommodate a variety of contents depending on the exhibition design: a dressed mannequin, garments of different scales, photographs, sketches, objects, and audiovisual material.

Digitaria Book

A photographic book on the fashion label Digitaria

The bilingual publication Something that Should Have Remained Hidden Has Come to Light is a photographic book dedicated to Digitaria, the independent fashion label based in Athens and founded by Eleftheria Arapoglou in 2009.

Through a curated selection of photographs spanning from Digitaria’s first collection to 2021, the book traces the creative evolution of the house, introducing readers to a key — though not widely known — representative of contemporary Greek fashion.

All photographs are by Yiorgos Mavropoulos, the result of a long-standing collaboration between designer and photographer, revealing their shared artistic language.

Download the
introductory text
of the book here

Art direction:
Hope
Text:
Meti Tsoukatou
Publication design:
Panos Papanagiotou
Negative scanning and image editing:
IdoloLab
Translation:
Aris Siafas
Photographs:
Yiorgos Mavropoulos

The publication was printed at Elikon Graphic Arts in May 2021, with the financial support and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Publisher: CLOTHESLINES

ISBN: 978-618-85425-1-8