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In An Evening Botanist, Andreas Mallouris examines how practices associated with healing, desire, and pleasure activate materialities and, through them, the social body. The exhibition unfolds at the threshold between the surgical and the erotic, translating clinical procedures into a sculptural vocabulary. Mallouris presents sculptures, installations, drawings, and a video. His materials include steel, bronze, plaster, soap, rose canes, wooden shafts, and grafting supports. These elements articulate paradoxical forms of proximity and reveal the structures that hold relations in place, forming a material syntax in which vulnerability and care become visible.
The title derives from the early twentieth-century euphemism “evening botanist,” a term used to describe men who sought encounters in public gardens. Mallouris reclaims this figure as a researcher of bodily intimacy, an observer who cultivates knowledge through attention and risk. Cruising eme…
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In An Evening Botanist, Andreas Mallouris examines how practices associated with healing, desire, and pleasure activate materialities and, through them, the social body. The exhibition unfolds at the threshold between the surgical and the erotic, translating clinical procedures into a sculptural vocabulary. Mallouris presents sculptures, installations, drawings, and a video. His materials include steel, bronze, plaster, soap, rose canes, wooden shafts, and grafting supports. These elements articulate paradoxical forms of proximity and reveal the structures that hold relations in place, forming a material syntax in which vulnerability and care become visible.
The title derives from the early twentieth-century euphemism “evening botanist,” a term used to describe men who sought encounters in public gardens. Mallouris reclaims this figure as a researcher of bodily intimacy, an observer who cultivates knowledge through attention and risk. Cruising eme…
