Keto Greek Goddess of the Sea Exhibition, Paros, June 2022

May 2022 Keto – Goddess of the Sea returns to Paros, Greece.
An exhibition featuring artifacts, installation and prints at the City Art Space Parikia, Paros, Greece.

On June 19th 2020, artist Clare O Hagan became Keto – Greek Goddess of the Sea. Keto and the artist were due to be on her island home of Paros, Greece on that date where a big party and exhibition celebrating her re-awakening was planned, they found themselves trapped in London because of the coronavirus pandemic. June 19th marks the first steps of an unexpected, unplanned odyssey – when they begin a journey over land and sea, homeward to Paros. The source of the Fleet river at Kenwood in Hampstead Heath was the starting point,  journeying south from Highgate, Kentish Town, Kings Cross, Lambs Conduit Street, Farringdon to the River Thames at Blackfriars in London.

On her journey Keto wore a blue costume and mask. The costume is made from a cotton fabric, printing with my original artworks, using the cyanotype process. Keto  wearing a mask and gloves, walked alone and kept a safe distance, provided an ideal way for people to experience art outside of an exhibition space at a time when access to galleries isn’t allowed. With lockdown more people will be able to encounter Keto and hear her story.

Read about Keto here:

Keto Greek Goddess of the Sea begins her Odyssey homeward from London

Keto Goddess of the Sea

An exhibition featuring Clare O Hagan’s  latest collection of work inspired by Paros, the sea and plastic pollution.

The exhibition will now take place June 2021 at the City Arts Space in Parikia, Paros, Greece.

City Arts Space hosts the first showing of Irish born artist Clare O Hagan’s unique series of prints and contemporary artifacts entitled “Keto and the Sea”.

Clare O Hagan awakens Keto, a powerful Greek Goddess to save the sea from drowning in plastic. Clare’s environmental project began three years ago after seeing increasing evidence of plastic pollution along the shoreline.

Keto Goddess of the Sea

“I am a frequent visitor to Paros, and my early morning walk around the bay from Parikia to the cliffs above the Cave of Archilochos is something I love greatly. Keto came to me one morning in a fit of anger, whilst sitting on the sea cliff edge, in a spot where I watch kestrels fledge. I was so shocked to see the beaches polluted with plastic waste on the way to the cliffs. Looking out to sea, surrounded by  rubbish collected earlier,  I imagined that being in the home of the Greek Gods, there must be one that could give us a hand now to sort out this plastic pollution. I went off to find one and after some research I discovered Keto – the Greek Goddess of the Dangers of the Sea.

Not long after, I found a rock shaped like a Greek theatre mask whilst hiking in The Cultural and Environmental Park of Paros. With plastic debris gathered from the beaches around Parikia, and the mask, I constructed an assemblage in the shape of a figure. Keto The Goddess of the Sea was re-born. Following on from this I made a series of etchings – art prints, and photographic prints using the sun to develop images of Keto, establishing her firmly on Paros. Keto has legs, and will travel widely seeking solutions and supporting efforts to halt the destruction of the seas from plastic pollution.”

Clare O Hagan’s Keto, Goddess of the Sea exhibition is comprised of a series of over 50 artifacts, objects and prints.

KETO PRINTS FOR SALE HERE

Exhibition Details:

Keto and the Sea

City Arts Space

Dimitrakopoulou Building

Old Market Street, Parikia

Paros, Greece

 

Exhibition Dates: June 2021

The exhibition is in partnership with Sustainable Living Paros and Clean Blue Paros.

Media Partner in Greece – Parolo Free Press

Clean Blue Paros

https://sustainablelivingparos.com/

Posted on 24th April 2023.