TRACING | 2025
MIXED MEDIA, DIMENSIONS VARIABLE
The exhibition All the Wrong Places examines the relationship between interior and exterior spaces, challenging traditional spatial understandings. Painting, sculpture, and installations guide viewers through an exploration oflandscapes that blend familiarity with paradox. The artists investigate proximity and distance, the loss and integration of self within space, as well as the processes of control to which space is often subjected.
The exhibition approaches withdrawal through the concept of space as a perpetual issue to be managed and negotiated. It culminates in “wrong” inhabitations as open invitations for new discoveries. The artists reflect on geographical location in relation to time, digital acceleration, the mnemonic functions of space, and its social and environmental destruction conditions. They focus on “representations” of landscapes and forms in an era that seems to have alienated us from place and time within an unstable environment that appears increasingly uninhabitable.
Exploring the relationship between the living, the inanimate, and the unlivable, the exhibition revisits traditional compositions of still life and landscape, reinterpreting their materiality and symbolic dimensions. Decay, vanity, and everyday beauty become tools for awakening as the artists delve into art history and the social field. By transcending the obvious in representation, they reveal the complexity of relationships between subject, object, and space. Boundaries blur, and new possibilities for habitation emerge, focusing on the precarious, the marginal, the overlooked, or the abandoned. The viewer is connected to a disintegrating world where the past interacts with and feeds into the future, creating new ecologies. Disassembled landscapes are reconstructed and recontextualised.
The forces of entropy and transformation are central to the exhibition. While still lifes traditionally depict the limits of decay, the works presented reconsider vulnerable transitions and the forced appropriations of destruction, insisting on the possibilities found within cracks. Visitors are invited to reflect on adaptive strategies that stand with uncertainty yet persist in resisting, seeking connections and relational spaces. In All the Wrong Places, the notion of “wrong” is transformed from a perceived endpoint into a catalyst for new narratives and opportunities for coexistence.
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All the Wrong Places
Αrtists: Vasilis Vasilakakis, Vasilis Galanis & Fiona Elli Spathopoulou, Georgia Damopoulou, Marco Eusepi, Athanasios Kanakis, Yiannis Bouteas, Kostas Pappas, Roxane Revon
Curated by: Panos Giannikopoulos