Abandoned Cartographies and Other Odd Hours
CAN
April 4—May 10, 2025
Athens, Greece
CAN
April 4—May 10, 2025
Athens, Greece
Abandoned Cartographies and Other Odd Hours operates through layered visual structures that bridge personal narrative, historical memory and material processes. The exhibition unfolds via associative shifts and unstable modes of perception, highlighting moments of disjunction where meaning remains partial or deferred.
Engaging with Surrealism, the exhibition foregrounds patterns of thought that resist fixed interpretation. Rather than approaching the movement as a stylistic reference, it instead embraces its core principles and ideas as a state of mind that privileges the hidden, the unexpected, the unknowable.
The selected works construct psychological spaces expressing thoughts, gestures and buried memories. Some play with existence and imagination, creating visual paradoxes featuring symbols and motifs that hover between waking life and dream. Others engage language through procedures that recall automatic writing, allowing words to emerge spontaneously.
Surfaces are built from construction materials such as bitumen sheets, liquid membranes or steel, subjected to chemical interventions and burning. Sculptural, hollowed forms and compact parts of larger systems suspend the viewer between the organic and the mechanical, while metallic drawings on stainless steel propose a cosmos in constant perceptual motion.
Elsewhere, disused printed imagery is cut, assembled and reprocessed through painterly gestures and archival graphic interventions, confronting the viewer with fragmented formations of knowledge. Recorded material is time-stretched into a sonic cascade, while moving-image works employ strategies of montage and recirculation to conjure science-fictive non-places that exist only as remnants of film.
Curated by: Dinos Chatzirafailidis
Participating artists: Elli Antoniou, Despina Charitonidi, Socrates Fatouros, James Fuller, Shambhavi Kaul, Konstantinos Lianos, Louis-Philippe Scoufaras, Sasha Streshna, Stefania Strouza, Dimitris Tampakis, Yorgos Yatromanolakis
Installation photography: Stathis Mamalakis
Installation support & handling: Nikos Katsampanis
Visual identity: Eleni Kaskoura
CAN | 19, Chalkokondyli Street, 104 32 Athens, Greece
Engaging with Surrealism, the exhibition foregrounds patterns of thought that resist fixed interpretation. Rather than approaching the movement as a stylistic reference, it instead embraces its core principles and ideas as a state of mind that privileges the hidden, the unexpected, the unknowable.
The selected works construct psychological spaces expressing thoughts, gestures and buried memories. Some play with existence and imagination, creating visual paradoxes featuring symbols and motifs that hover between waking life and dream. Others engage language through procedures that recall automatic writing, allowing words to emerge spontaneously.
Surfaces are built from construction materials such as bitumen sheets, liquid membranes or steel, subjected to chemical interventions and burning. Sculptural, hollowed forms and compact parts of larger systems suspend the viewer between the organic and the mechanical, while metallic drawings on stainless steel propose a cosmos in constant perceptual motion.
Elsewhere, disused printed imagery is cut, assembled and reprocessed through painterly gestures and archival graphic interventions, confronting the viewer with fragmented formations of knowledge. Recorded material is time-stretched into a sonic cascade, while moving-image works employ strategies of montage and recirculation to conjure science-fictive non-places that exist only as remnants of film.
Curated by: Dinos Chatzirafailidis
Participating artists: Elli Antoniou, Despina Charitonidi, Socrates Fatouros, James Fuller, Shambhavi Kaul, Konstantinos Lianos, Louis-Philippe Scoufaras, Sasha Streshna, Stefania Strouza, Dimitris Tampakis, Yorgos Yatromanolakis
Installation photography: Stathis Mamalakis
Installation support & handling: Nikos Katsampanis
Visual identity: Eleni Kaskoura
CAN | 19, Chalkokondyli Street, 104 32 Athens, Greece