Opening hours: Wednesday-Friday: 15:00-19:00 & Saturday: 12:00-16:00
Closed between: April 4-19 for the Easter break
Where: ACG Plaka Building, 17 Ipitou St, Plaka, Athens
Curated by
ACG Art collection in collaboration with Díla
Co-organized by:
Díla
Frances Rich School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Deree – The American College of Greece
The Demos Center of The American College of Greece
About the exhibition
A new group exhibition brings together artists from diverse cross-cultural backgrounds to explore ideas of dislocation and possibility, alongside expressions of hybridity in relation to place, belonging, and selfhood.
Not Third but Infinite takes its title and conceptual framework from critical theorist Homi K. Bhabha’s notion of the “Third Space,” expanding his idea of a hybrid, imagined zone between cultures into a vision of infinite re-creation. This expansion evokes the psychological potency of utopia—a state defined by perpetual openness and possibility. Notably, the exhibition includes previously unexhibited notebooks and ephemera from the personal archive of the distinguished Greek-American artist Michael Lekakis (1907–1987). Lekakis’s work has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Guggenheim, and is held in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Greece.
Featuring both established and posthumous artists alongside those at earlier stages of their careers, the exhibition presents poetry, painting, embroidery, works on paper, archival ephemera, and immersive installations. It collectively reflects on what it means not only to leave one’s roots behind, but also to continuously renegotiate versions of the self. These recalibrated identities are often constructed from visual fragments, memories, and sensory impressions tied to specific landscapes and physical touchpoints, which reassemble in unfamiliar yet generative ways. Greek-Egyptian painter Farida El Gazzar, continuing her evolving series of miniature paintings depicting city life, architecture, and foliage, presents scenes drawn from the urban landscapes of Athens and Alexandria, framed within kitsch decorative borders. Greek-Cypriot artist Vassia Adamou Vanezi, who describes her practice as involving “poetic gestures” and “visual poetry or concrete poetry,” engages with the contested terrain of her Cypriot homeland. Through botanicals mounted on handmade paper and layers of typed text rendered illegible through repetition, she enacts processes of confusion, re-creation, and re-meaning.
See more:
https://www.acg.edu/events/not-third-but-infinite/
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