HOW TO DRIVE

In June this year, we invited Katerina Moschou to cooperate with her project “How To Drive”, co-published by ZOETROPE ATHENS and awarded a publishing grant by Polycopies & Co. The first, out-of-print edition of the publication was awarded the ArtsLibris Banc Sabadell Award 2023 (Barcelona 2023) and was shortlisted for the PhotoESPANA Best Photography Book Award (Madrid 2023). We will have even greater pleasure to present this summer an exhibition of Katerina’s photographs and sculptures at the FOTO-GEN Gallery.

How To Drive takes place in Katerina’s father’s car repair shop in central Athens, where she grew up hearing about hard-to-find mechanical parts, the beauty of Italian car bodies and the life stories of their owners. Steeped in the atmosphere of the male-dominated automotive world, it explores a space that until recently was distant from women. She carefully observes the mechanical processes of driving a car, all the ritual activities and nuances accompanying driving a car, carefully observes the movement of her body, noting that the interaction between the body and the environment, as well as the body and parts of the car, creates a kind of choreography.

The exhibition will consist of various format photographs as well as metal objects resembling car parts in shape. We have planned its opening with the artist’s participation on June 28 this year.