The Marginalia Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by Lila Papoula, entitled “Thickets.”

The artist herself says:

“Landscapes and Places. Places as transformations. Because a landscape can indeed be a landscape, that is, outside. But it can also be the transformation of an experience from a place, a space that was once inhabited, which may no longer exist, but whose traces, inside, are like messages hidden in the folds of memory, saying that this outside still inhabits me.

Notes here and there, photographs from previous years like a diary, pop up unexpectedly, recollections in the making. A landscape like a biographical canvas. Because it has already existed in the projections within the present of my own past from the future.

Thickets are dense clusters of branches, foliage, and shrubs. Natural refuges of memory that, completely unexpectedly and imperceptibly, at certain moments may reveal something of what they had kept hidden until then. Spaces of transition from the past to tomorrow and to the present, from light to darkness, but also from darkness to light.”

Abput Lila Papoula

The painter Lila Papoula was born in Athens in 1955. She studied painting with the painter Mimi Kontos (1972-1974) and at St Martins School of Art in London (1974-1976). She studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1978-1983). In 1977-1978, she lived and worked in Paris. From 1989 to 1992, she taught at the Kostea-Geitonas Schools.

She has presented her work in 23 solo exhibitions, including at Art Athens and the Thessaloniki Biennale, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

Her works can be found in the Hellenic Parliament, the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, the Teloglion Foundation of Arts at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Embassy of Cyprus in Athens (House of Cyprus), the University of Ioannina, Panteion University, the Vorres Museum, the Society of Epirus Studies (Ioannina), the Municipal Gallery of Ioannina, the Municipal Gallery of Kalamata, the Municipal Gallery of Rhodes, the Christos & Sofia Moschandreou Gallery of Contemporary Art in Messolonghi Sophia Moschandreou, the Piraeus Bank, and other private collections in Greece and abroad.

Opening Night: Friday 14 November, 19.30

Duration: 14/11/2025 – 6/12/2025 

Opening Days/Hours: Tuesday– Friday: 10.00 – 13.00 & 17.00 – 20.00

Saturday: 10.30 – 13.00

MARGINALIA GALLERY

15 D,Ε Kyprianou 2059 Strovolos, τηλ.99657080

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