Nikos Alexiou
Beppe Caturegli
Alekos Kyrarinis
Christina Mitrentse
Myrto Xanthopoulou
Maria Ikonomopoulou
Nina Papaconstantinou
Nikos Podias
Efi Spyrou
Panos Charalampous
Thalia Chioti

Eleven visual artists exhibit their personal artistic creation. They adopt a “private” approach and each one reveals his or her identity, methodology, and visual idiom. They employ various media and materials. Often, in terms of process and technique, the artists of the exhibition have the reference to manual work with an underlying social and political dimension as their common denominator.
All participants follow a reassuring “routine” -based on manual movement- that acquires cohesion through repetition. In this framework, the resulting works encapsulate -first of all- a process of self-regulation for the artists themselves. The mapping of the persistent recording of an inner rhythmic rule is the reflection of an inner structure, a targeted mild occultism where the form of the universe, as we perceive and sense it, is embodied in vibrating essential lines. The inclusion of the inner need for portrayal in a narrative vortex, a vertigo, which serves as the ground on which the artists organize their process of expression, grants visibility and validity to the recording of an agony that in terms of artistry stems from the noblest of intentions. We witness the materialisation of a unifying process that starts long before the creation of an artwork and continues long after its completion; the aim is to assess and establish the evidence of a solid expressive centre.
Despite each artist’s “individuality”, this exhibition reveals common grounds. Repetition is expressed as a pattern; as the identical juxtaposition of text and words; as successive images. The artworks of the exhibition are characterised by repetition of movement, obsessive ritualism, order-arrangement, and scrupulous immersion.