AROUND ABOUT | OpenArtLink 2025 Piraeus
[Available in English]
Curated by: Julia Harrauer
Artists: Dominykas Cinauskas, Ilias Koen, Nikola Milojčević, Lidia Russkova-Hasaya, Katerina Papazissi, Saulė Šmidtaitė. “Rooms” Performance by: Lidia Russkova-Hasaya
AROUND ABOUT investigates the tension between appearance and reality, exploring how materials can deceive and shape perception. The body functions as the primary medium in these transformations, determining how we experience our surroundings.
Ships arrive and depart, while the textures of metal, concrete and rust fill the landscape. The sea is present in its duality, gentle yet formidable. Water appears light, on the calm surface it sparkles in the sunlight. Yet on the open water enormous waves rise, asserting their immense power and bears the extraordinary weight of freighters. In this environment of constant motion and transformation, what appears fragile yet substantial engages in an immediate dialogue with the space.
As a result, each of the five featured artistic positions interprets material transformation and the interplay between fragility and toughness in their own way, revealing how perception, matter, and consciousness are inseparably intertwined. Diverse mediums are reshaped and placed in new contexts, redefining their original properties. Seemingly hard metal plates are made of paper, carefully painted and formed into intricate structures. Other works evoke floral forms yet are made from solid steel, bent with immense force into fragile. Human-made paintings range from naturalistic and digitally generated to hyperreal, while sculptures appear as though salvaged from shipwrecks but are in fact composed of delicate ceramics. Deception becomes a conceptual tool, only revealed at second glance, making transformation tactile as a state suspended between destruction and creation.
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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