ARC – Art Revisited Collective and its founder, Art Curator Paris Kapralos, invite us to attend the opening and visit the exhibition titled “Ephemeral Homelands,” which explores the influence of place in shaping one’s personal mythology.
The exhibition takes place at Myró Gallery (8 Nikiforou Foka Street, White Tower area, Thessaloniki city center), with its opening on Thursday, October 6th, 2022 at 19:00. Alongside the physical exhibition in Thessaloniki, the show will also be accessible online via ARTgrID (artgrid.gr), available to audiences worldwide.
In his curatorial statement, Paris Kapralos notes:
“In the summer of 2022, we revisited the destinations of our childhood. We placed greater emphasis on the scent and taste of summer, breaking the vicious cycle of external definition. Two years of confinement, anxiety, and fear directed us back to a time when summer smelled like watermelon. They helped us remember that our seas contain a thousand islands and not just two famous resorts, that we are a people of the sea and the mountains, that we have places of unparalleled beauty which, until recently, we felt were inherently ours.
This summer we returned to the ephemeral holiday homelands that shaped what we experience as personal, what we perceive as romantic, what we feel as enchanting, what we live as relaxing, what we recognize as meaningful, what and how we accept as our own. Even on a smaller scale, and without the dramatic weight of displacement, we may now understand a little better the etymology of the word ‘nostalgia’ (from the Ancient Greek ‘nostos,’ meaning ‘return home,’ and ‘algos,’ meaning ‘pain’).
Ephemeral homelands are places whose spirit remains in constant dialogue with each of us—our geographic anchor of lived experience. They are recorded in the fluid realm of emotion, yet the expressive completeness of art captures them more fully, revealing our awakened relationship with the ‘anima loci,’ the spirit of each place.”
Participating artists include:
Giorgos Anastasiadis, Magda Dimoudi, Spyros Romanos, Alexia Dilaveri, Panos Panagiotaropoulos, Athina Gardani, Christoforos Makris, Anna Megalakaki, Katerina Papastavropoulou, Virginia Zervoyiannaki, Hara Saiti, Sotiria Alevizou, Matoula Ntouni, Eleni Maliachova-Chranioti, Christina Tsakyriou, Dimitra Gounari, Eleni Paridi, Melina Danousi, Efi Barouda, Lina Kalantaridou, Evangelia Avramidou.
The exhibition runs from October 6th to 15th, 2022. During this period, Myró Gallery will be open with free admission to the public:
- Tuesday – Wednesday: 12:00 – 18:00
- Thursday – Friday: 15:00 – 21:00
- Saturday: 10:00 – 14:00
