Contemporary art exhibition 2023

For 2023, the annual exhibition of contemporary art is inspired by the glocal codes of currant. It comes to life as a new poetic assemblage of two coded separate phrases: (ISAXO) in response to your letter / (ACEUK) weather is favourable. Conceived and co-curated by artists Nansy Charitonidou and Bill Psarras, five artists from Greece and UK have been invited to create new commissioned artworks; initiating a dialogue with the historical archives, the place, the emerging glocalities and the voyages of primarolia ships. Inspired by a hypothetical yet so true and hidden communication; meanings are open. The combination of two found phrases creates a new curatorial statement; is it about weather conditions? Is it about a favourable moment? Is it about new situations and data? A cryptographic condition floating between hope, romance, anxiety and waiting for a response. The processes of encryption, encoding, decoding, transmission, writing and recompositing create new approaches for potential readings of codes and symbols. A  latent memory, well-hidden; almost non-existent, available for decoding by artists.

Concept-Curation: Nansy Charitonidou – Bill Psarras

Artists: Susan Collins, Adonis Volanakis, Ilektra Maipa, Kostas Bassanos, Lily Hassioti