Revolution I Love You

The spirit of May 1968 in Thessaloniki’s port

The arts played a leading role in the events of May 1968 in France, and in subsequent interpretations of those events; now, forty years after the heart of France was beating to the pulse of revolution, the time has come for the arts to explore the traces left in the present day by the 1968 revolutionary movement. The Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art has borrowed one of the slogans of the time and used it for the title of its exhibition Revolution I love you that runs from 5 May to 31 August 2008, at the Warehouse Β1 in the Port of the city.

The exhibition is one of a number of events being organized under the title Days of ‘68, in association with the Thessaloniki Film Festival and the magazine Istorein.

Visitors to the exhibition have the opportunity to see works by 12 contemporary artists from various countries, either created in the revolutionary atmosphere of May ‘68 or offering current approaches to aspects of the political and social struggle. The exhibition offers examples of the ways in which the desire for social change, as a practical realization of the dream of liberation on the individual and collective level, is given visual form in the works of artists from different geographical and cultural environments.