In an era of entrenched positions (rights movements, proclamations of a new enlightenment, etc.) but also accelerating collapses (of geopolitical balances, economies, societies, states…), we would like to test the value of certain gazes shaped by this conjuncture.

As an unstable framing for our artistic proposals, we adopted three concepts that could support a certain orientation. They illuminate the processing and the distance required for an artwork to speak the language of our times.

Extremities concern whatever can be considered “extreme” within a system, a society – perhaps a civilization. Whatever brings their cohesion to the breaking point.

Decelerations are reflective changes of rhythm in order “to see where we are going” (for those who remember Vassiliadou in “The Aunt from Chicago”!).
Ambiguities arise from the uncertain assessment of historical developments. They make us wary of them or familiarize us with the irony of phenomena.
Under this triadic, open framework, the artistic proposals overlap, resonate, oppose each other, converse like poèmes simultanés, without the redemptive invocation of grand narratives. They thus highlight the element of uncertainty as a virtue of orientation, while simultaneously adopting Pasolini’s exhortation:
“…Be incessantly unrecognizable… immediately forget the great successes… want to identify with what is different: cause scandal, blaspheme.”

An exhibition to (not) be sure about

Venue: ASFA, CIRCUITS AND CURRENTS – Notara and Tositsa, Exarchia, Athens

Curated by: Takis Kaldis
Duration: November 6 – 21, 2026