Date : 14-21 June, 2025
Location : Nea Smyrni
Date : 14-21 June, 2025
Location : Nea Smyrni
I realised that creative life is at the centre of everything that connects me to family and society and is also relevant to human behaviour. What happens around us every day challenges our thinking, awakens us , inspires us, asks us questions and awaits answers.Who am I?
This is the context of the exhibition, where a dialogue between the creators and the viewers is attempted, which will function synthetically in the best possible way.
It is about choice, courage and consistency. How often do we need the courage to make life-changing choices for ourselves or others, always weighing the negative and positive consequences of our action or
inaction? Every day ? Hourly ? Heartbeat by heartbeat ? Do we react or lie on our couch?
These three areas (choice-courage-consistency) form the backbone of this report..
It expresses a dynamic and irresistible desire to move with others. To find a stability of position, a voice that gives courage and energy, a sense of collectivity against chaos and isolation.
How many femicides take place?
How many are left homeless?
How many children are moved into shelters?
How many traffic accidents occur, but above all how many are
accompanied by abandonment?
Do we lightly toss a newborn stray into the garbage can?
Do we shake hands with a person who has tripped on the road?
Do we drive at a low speed through the city?
The questions are too many and it is impossible to fit them into one text, even in this report.
Today the arts provide clarity to the elementary question:
Who am I. Either self-referentially, or through visual socio-political activism.
And this is what this exhibition will try to achieve.
These exhibitions are an interesting overview of the contemporary scene, on behalf of the artists, and an attempt to highlight the range of the visual imagination and the power of art to unhinge us.
After all, by their very nature, these exhibitions are not intended to present a curatorial vision.
They seek to raise consciousness, to the extent of reflecting on the fundamental aspects of life and the essence of our existence. They are the presentation of the socio-cultural development of modern man. It is -perhaps- the stigma of modern reality, and what needs to be changed.
This address to the general public will try to strengthen and unite collective thinking and rediscover its human roots and values and the reality created through this interaction.
Through a conversation about our common destiny and our place in the world ( the human condition).
Jenny Tsoumpri
art curator