09/09/2025
Every Beach I Have Ever Slept In
Opening September 16th from 6-10pm
Agios Nikolaos,
acrylics, oil and oil-pastels on canvas,
120x200cm (diptych), 2024
The beach as a field of embodied memory and sensory politics.
This exhibition is a selection of works from a broader body of work that attempts to map a series of coastal landscapes based on a specific, experiential axis: sleep. All the beaches I have (fallen) asleep on throughout my life. Some of these have already been altered or disappeared, while others are likely facing the same fate. Their representation is based on memories, fragments of imagination, and photographic material I have collected over the last fifteen years. The painting process starts from personal experience but develops in dialogue with childhood imagery, folk painting, and the history of landscape painting. It does not aim at faithful reproduction but at the creation of a sensory archive, for the re-articulation of the beach as an emotional and imaginary space. Sleep functions as an act of embodied memory (1), as a starting point for constructing landscapes that have been experienced multiple times under different mental and temporal conditions, returning as emotional and sensory traces […]
