Margaret Raspé she had become a machine with Danai Io, Vibeke Mascini Contemporary Greek Art Institute (ISET), Athens, GR Opening: Tuesday 26 May 2026, 7pm Exhibition: 26 May — 17 July 2026

she had become a machine brings together three artists who observe, process, transform, and channel energy in its manifold forms. Using Margaret Raspé’s (1933-2023) practice as a kernel, especially her works related to her summers on the island of Karpathos, the exhibition explores energy as it manifests through fleeting images and invisible currents: like Raspé, Danae Io and Vibeke Mascini create machines and allow their own and other bodies to become machines themselves. Raspé’s time in Karpathos and the force its rough landscape exerted on her work precipitate novel engagements with the elemental. The noun “device” and the verb “devise” differ by a single letter. Yet, etymologically, they originate in a common root. Margaret Raspé, Danae Io, and Vibeke Mascini stand somewhere in the middle, drawing on both: they devise devices.

The exhibition she had become a machine is one of the stages of the joint curatorial research of Danai Giannoglou and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou on the work of Margaret Raspé. It follows the exhibition Sea Garden that took place at EMST, November 8 2025 - 8 February 2026.

Curated by Danai Giannoglou, conception and research: Danai Giannoglou & Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou.