“The Animal Must Be Killed” at Black Box Artcore

Black Box Artcore presents the exhibition The Animal Must Be Killed by visual artists Loukas Kalliantasis and Danai Margariti, from October 17 to November 2, 2025.

Within the space, a polymorphic visual environment has been created, exploring the notions of surveillance, spectacle, scientific knowledge, and urban construction-mechanisms that classify and divide bodies, thereby shaping our relationship with what we accept as “Real.”

In The Animal Must Be Killed, the two artists invite us to confront the truth of those ruptures-technological, natural, and beyond-enacted by such mechanisms in our world, while reflecting on what has been lost in the process. Their collaboration oscillates between loss and spectacle, the cessation of production and Control, mourning and destruction, allowing their artistic expression to generate an intense atmosphere within the exhibition space.

Danai Margariti, by highlighting forms of control and biopolitics through the use of industrial materials and the creative reworking of scientific imagery, and Loukas Kalliantasis, by inverting the materiality of the natural and artificial worlds-drawing on the fractured relationship between humans, public space, and nature-seek to move beyond the narrative of the Virtual versus the Real, emphasizing the materiality that permeates not only artistic creation but also the conceptual approach to art and ideology as a whole.

The exhibition is curated by the Black Box Artcore team in collaboration with Loukas Kalliantasis.