Domesticating Savages | OpenArtLink 2025 Piraeus
The art project “Domesticating Savages” is a living refuge of experiences, an inner powder keg where the ongoing battle between two opposing forces within the same person is inscribed. It is a journey that began ten years ago as an indistinct search and continues to this day, with a signifi-cant intensification in the past two years, when the idea started to take form through social experiments, lived ex-periences, and systematic documentation.
This process proved decisive, as the subject was confront-ed with the irrevocable necessity of choice: to turn inward, to allow time to mature the conflicts, and to reveal the need for balance. At its core lies the confrontation be-tween darkness and light—between the untamed, wild as-pects of existence and the human need for taming, integra-tion, and reconciliation.
This reconciliation does not signify the denial of one side in favor of the other, but rather a creative coexistence, where light draws strength from darkness and darkness ac-quires meaning through light. Thus, the work is grounded in the present as an open inquiry into the human condition: how one manages to live with contradictions, to transform chaos into creation, and to turn an inner battle into a bridge toward self-knowledge.
Curated by: Pavlina Bechrakis
Artist: Spyridwn
The exhibition is presented at OpenArtLink 2025 | Piraeus Project, an initiative organised by CHEAPART and keramikos_23, aimed to unite 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, keramikos_23
Georg Georgakopoulos, Paolo Incarnato, Fotini Kapiris, Thalia Kerouli
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