The Hellenic American Union presents a solo exhibition by artist Maria Zervos entitled Entopic Diaries: Geography of Home, curated by Katerina Koskina. The exhibition opens on Monday, February 9, 2026, at 7:00 p.m., at the Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery of the Hellenic American Union (22 Massalias Street, Athens) and will run until February 28, 2026.

Entopic Diaries: Geography of Home is a five-channel video installation consisting of five interconnected videos. At the core of the work lies Zervos’ long-term exploration of the concept of locality as an experiential and constantly changing experience. In the video work Entopic Diaries: Geography of Home (2026), the home emerges as a changing field, a video diary, a place of memory and inner reflection. Moving between interior and exterior landscapes, the artist composes a poetic cartography of belonging.

The video installation combines the projected images with Zervos’ poetry, in a video reading of poems by ten actors and in dialogue with excerpts from David Lynch’s film Mulholland Drive. Zervos’ poems, which concern spaces of memory, evoke direct references to Seferis’ poetry and the concept of openness, while cinematic fragments from Lynch’s film are projected onto male and female bodies, transforming them into screens and places of reflection, where personal narratives intersect with open social and cultural conditions. In this process, the body, architecture, and the environment function as interconnected surfaces through which reflection on contemporary realities is created.

According to the curator of the exhibition, “The work emerged from the cinematic diaries that the artist created over the last fifteen years, in which she examines the personal and the political, the contrast between inside and outside, the concept of locality, not in static and national terms, but as a dynamically changing condition, with its positives and negatives, for a large percentage of humanity. The human body itself, ephemeral, migratory, architectural, and outdoor spaces are transformed into surfaces that “house” and project memories, habits, and narratives from other homes and homelands. The familiar is defined by the unfamiliar and vice versa. A human geography is created, which sets new parameters for the concept of locality and home and the change of place through involuntary, compulsory, violent, traumatic, or even voluntary movements, as well as the consequent adaptation, appropriation, or resistance to accepting the new place, more broadly and more specifically the personal space.

Entopic Diaries: Geography of Home can be seen as an audiovisual memoir that explores the ecology of transition and the fragile space between personal and collective memory.

The following actors participate in Maria Zervos’ video work: Manos Antoniou, Lia Thalassinou, Angelina Ziaka, Elisavet Kanelli, Vasilis Levogiannis, Errika Makri, Alexandra Manolopoulou, Giannis Petrou, Maro Sevasti, and Maria Zervos.