KATERINA PARRI
The exhibition ventures into uncharted territories of the subconscious, unfolding a series of quests that transcend rationality, structure, and narrative coherence.
CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery presents Abandoned Cartographies and Other Odd Hours, a group exhibition featuring works by 11 artists from across the visual arts spectrum. The show delves into the human subconscious, unfolding through a surrealistic lens.
Abandoned Cartographies and Other Odd Hours navigates the uncharted territories of the subconscious, forming a series of quests that transcend rationality, structure, and linear narrative. It focuses on lived experiences unbound by conscious perception or conventional knowledge, opening new pathways of introspection and revealing hidden facets of the psyche. Simultaneously, it evokes stimuli that recover buried memories and latent concerns.
In dialogue with key conceptual axes of Surrealism, the exhibition examines the disconnection of the self from the external environment and from established structures of thought. Rather than treating Surrealism merely as an aesthetic category, it delves into its core principles, approaching it as a state of mind—a creative mode that reveals the hidden, the enigmatic, and the inscrutable.
Within this framework, the participating artists move beyond depictions of dreams or faithful representations of psychological states, instead focusing on destabilization and inner conflict.
The works presented revolve around the notion of abstract signification, employing aesthetic and conceptual mechanisms such as disorientation, the disjunction of form and content, and the use of open-ended iconography. Positioned at the threshold between the real and the imaginary, they insert uncanny or ominous scenes into dreamlike—or even nightmarish—settings.
Recurring motifs act as vortices of the subconscious, or as instinctive gestures that spark free associations through ambiguity and constantly shifting perspectives. Visual illusions challenge viewers to question their perception of reality, introducing moments of distortion and ephemeral dislocation. At the same time, language appears fragmented, with words surfacing as spontaneous traces of the unconscious, evoking the practice of automatic writing.
The relationship with space is disrupted, intensifying the sense of incompleteness and perpetual displacement. Some works function as contradictory psychographies, capturing environments that feel simultaneously familiar and unsettling, blurring the lines between the organic and the inorganic. Water emerges as a recurring element, often acting as a mirror of the subconscious, where forms fold, distort, or dissolve across its surface.
Unrestricted by any singular field of expression, the exhibition spans a wide range of media and techniques, including painting, sculpture, installation, works on paper, photography, video, sound, and poetry. Through fluid materialities and indeterminate forms, strict interpretations are bypassed, allowing meaning to hover delicately at the thresholds of perception.
Curator/ text: Dinos Hadjirafaelidis
Participating artists: Elli Antoniou, Giorgos Giatromanolakis, Konstantinos Lianos, Stefania Struza, Dimitris Tabakis, Socrates Fatouros, Despina Haritonidi, James Fuller, Shambhavi Kaul, Louis-Philippe Scoufaras, Sasha Streshna
Visual identity: Eleni Kaskoura
Info
Exhibition Duration: until 10 May
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Friday: 11.00-15.00, 17.00-20.00
Saturday: 11.00-16.00
Free entrance
CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery
Anagnostopoulou 42, Kolonaki
+30 210 3390833
