Erini Boutasi was the first Greek artist working in ´ace. However, in times of globalization the origin by birth of an artist is disrupted by her experiences of constant transfer from one place to another. This is the case of Eirini who studied in Wales and has done residencies in Berlin, now in Argentina and will spend the next two years in the United States while working at the famous Tamarind Institute.
Eirini is a subtle and minimalist artist, expert in lithography, which uses the technique to emphasize the poetic content of her work that meets both: the spontaneity and mathematical rigor. 

The work produced during her residency in ´ace was presented on May 15th in the ´ace Nite: Crossroads opening. Accompanied by the music of the argentine composer, pianist and director Oscar Edelstein (La Paz, Argentina) and vocals from Deborah Claire Procter (Cardiff, Gales, UK), singer, performer and artist.

ARTIST STATEMENT
For my recent work I have used the potential of printmaking for variation and repetition. The drawings on the printing surface are printed in a sequence strictly following an arithmetical system of combinations that has been set. The drawing itself is quick, organic and personal as opposed to the system I follow for printing. Quick drawing allows me not to think. Not thinking is memory. Quick and non accomplished drawing means constant change, non engagement, indeterminacy, non understanding.
By simply playing with numbers, I interlace forms and let them surprise me. It is a game or exercise of detaching myself from the result and accepting it for what it is. I choose to draw and print on square format. The square- being self contained- challenges my intention for an indeterminate drawing. Moreover, the fixed and neutral shape of the square brings forward the composition and enhances its un-fixedness. From self- expression to self-alteration. Ordered marks, nonsense writing.

Eirini’s connection with the Argentine composer Oscar Edelstein started in Wales where she attended his workshop on Acoustic Theater. She got interested in the ideas of notation as “writing the musical space”, key to Oscar Edelstein’s research on Acoustic Theater.  She found that this residency in Argentina would give her the opportunity to approach the composer and study with him more in profound the visual interpretation of musical space. In other words how rhythm, dynamics, density and so on can be organized in a visual language. For this project at ´ace she got as ticket to this journey the composer’s permission, to use La Mariposa sang by Deborah Claire Procter. Eirini regarded the title of this theme as symbolic to memory games and the sound of the Mariposas flight as a first step to the study of musical space and visual script.