A Question of Becoming | OpenArtLink 2025 Piraeus
The exhibition "A Question of 'Becoming" is the group exhibition of six artists, invited to trace not only human creativity but also nature itself. It is the coexistence of artists with a nexus of transmutation, today's man and his relationship with the body, desire, his present - and how adapted he is to the “game” of acceleration and his future “wants”. However, the desire to enjoy the benefits of technology and acceleration does not succeed without the sacrifice of experienced time, in the present.
The exhibition borrows its subtitle from Heraclitus' phrase, “ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν”, and translates as: “I searched for myself”. It is a statement of a turn towards the exploration of the self. This proposal of the constantly dynamic “becoming” - to which later thinkers return - in contrast to a static “being”, is what remains in a post-modern society, where we are urged as the only option to accelerate.
What place does the body, desire, decay, uncertainty, trauma, memory, asymmetry, deceleration, death - have in such a condition, where everything that makes us human is removed, in the name of a constant readiness? Our body, our mind learns in new paths, but there is no need to repeat them unchanged.
The participating artists are concerned: “What do we offer to our time if not the body of our lived experience?” This elusive, beyond the visible, as the attempt - and the result together - of the body to heal the wounds of the post-modern world. The relationship of the artworks to reality is intentionally partial. Art is behind what is seen. The works are bound up in a common axis of historicity, and governed by the paths of human experience and aestheticism.
Curated by: Anna Alexia Papadopoulou
Artists: Claudio Coltorti, Angeliki Koutsodimitropoulou, Anna Alexia Papadopoulou, Johnna Sachpazis, Filippos Tatakis, Dimitris Theocharis.
The exhibition is presented at OpenArtLink 2025, an initiative that brings together international artists from diverse disciplines to explore innovation and creative exchange.
OpenArtLink 2025
Piraeus-Project
Athinon 8-12, 185 40, Piraeus 185 40
22 - 26 October, 2025
Opening: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Organised by: CHEAPART, keramikos23
Georg Georgakopoulos, Paolo Incarnato, Fotini Kapiris, Thalia Kerouli
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