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Gagosian Quarterly


Honoring Aegean Memories

August 2, 2024
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The Warp of Time celebrates a hundred years of shared history between the Old Carpet Factory, a historical mansion located on the Greek island of Hydra, and Soutzoglou Carpets. Here, Salomé Gómez-Upegui interviews curator Ekaterina Juskowski about Helen Marden’s woven works within the context of the exhibition, touching upon themes of history, memory, and creative expression.

In 1924, following two years in exile during the Greco-Turkish War, expert carpet manufacturer Nicholas Soutzoglou established a carpet factory in an abandoned estate on the Greek island of Hydra. One hundred years later, the site-specific exhibition The Warp of Time presented at the mansion, which is now home to the Old Carpet Factory Recording Studio and Art Residency, seeks to celebrate a century of shared history between Soutzoglou Carpets and its historical Hydra setting.

Curated by Ekaterina Juskowski, founder and director of the Art Residency at the Old Carpet Factory, the exhibition features a series of Helen Marden’s watercolors, translated into carpets by Soutzoglou’s Art Rug Projects, and Greek artist Dimitrios Antonitsis’s loom-abacuses, category-defying works that totter between art and artifact—all presented alongside a century-old carpet from the Soutzoglou collection that was woven in the same house where it is now on view. Together, these works explore history, memory, and creative expression on the Aegean Island.