“INTERSECTIONS: Bidirectional Memory”: CITRONNE Gallery launches a new series of group exhibitions

CITRONNE Gallery inaugurates a new annual series of group exhibitions titled INTERSECTIONS. The concept behind the series is to bring into dialogue-“to intersect”-works and artists from different generations who work across diverse artistic media such as drawing, sculpture, ceramics, video, and installation.

The first exhibition is titled “Bidirectional Memory,” a theme that refers to the past as it is revisited-or even reconfigured-by the present.

Seven artists participate in this inaugural exhibition: Kostis Velonis, Evgenia Vereli, Chrysi Papadaki, Aliki Papadimitriou, Natalia Papadopoulou, Nana Sachini, and Evgenia Fragkoliá. Their narratives share a unifying foundation in mnemonic material, as encountered in children’s toys, fairy tales, the circus, and the Commedia dell’Arte. From this shared terrain, affinities between the works begin to emerge.

Such narratives carry with them the magic of memory in its double nature: an alluring charm on the one hand, and a primordial fear on the other. The interplay between these two forces largely shapes the subconscious, which later unfolds and becomes integrated-transformed in one way or another-into the present.

Kostis Velonis is guided by spontaneity and theatricality. He presents an empty stage set of unexpected scale that leads the viewer toward the characters and “effects” of Commedia dell’Arte-yet without ultimately resolving into a performance.

Evgenia Vereli focuses on memories of the circus or reconstructs children’s drawings made in the sand, transforming them into sculptural forms.

The wooden works of Aliki Papadimitriou evoke the old world of handmade toys. Their endings, however, take the form of zoomorphic heads reminiscent of dark Gothic creatures.

Natalia Papadopoulou, within a “room-environment,” introduces a video installation in which various images are projected onto a tank of water-suggesting the immersion and emergence of embodied memory.

Chrysi Papadaki creates a space of contemplation and deep introspection where memory plays the defining role. Her work unfolds as a dreamlike landscape in which botanical motifs coexist with biomorphic elements.

The sculptural and painterly figures of Nana Sachini and Evgenia Fragkoliá, conceived as living bodies, evoke successive emotions of desire and fear.

At first glance, these artists appear markedly different from one another. Yet they engage in an ongoing dialogue of complementary voices and expressions that unfold throughout the gallery’s spaces. Emerging from the hidden depths of each artist’s childhood memory, their works travel along a shared path-reconstructing personal references into a transcendent, complementary symmetry within the present.