AnnexM presents the new work by visual artist Jenny Marketou, Folly for Songs for Funk Kinships, a site-specific installation designed for the Garden of Megaron the Athens Concert Hall. The work unfolds in situ, with the Garden itself functioning as an artistic studio, where materialities, seasonal transformations, and existing life forms organically contribute to the creative process.
The installation develops from summer through spring, as a refuge for wild kinships and sonic synchronizations, following the shifting rhythms of the seasons and vegetation. Its architecture takes a playful, ironic stance toward conventional notions of functionality or decoration, claiming a space where form does not obey codes of utility but negotiates terms of shared living. The broken circle that defines its structure—an open form allowing free access and circular flow—is composed of clay components, bricks made of natural materials, wood, and organic traces. These structures provide habitat for birds, insects, small animals, plant organisms, and other life forms.
In Folly for Songs for Funk Kinships, the human presence withdraws from the center and participates on equal terms in a multiple community. The work is inscribed into the Garden while simultaneously creating the framework for the emergence of a new ecosystem of relations: a meeting ground between the animate and the inanimate, where the very concepts of life, matter, and care are reformulated. The material structures remain open to decay and transformation, adapting to the subtle shifts of the environment. The materialities activate sensory experiences while also serving as a practical ground for the development of relations, composing a field of encounters that resists predetermined hierarchies.
The work was realized in collaboration with the social cooperative Cob, embracing practices of natural building and bioclimatic architecture.
The work is accessible at the Megaron Garden daily from 10:00 until sunset, until May 2026.
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