Art exhibition and parallel program:
November 14 to November 28, 2025
Location: PLEX, Kerameikou 28, 10436
Curator: Yiannis Pediotis
Organization and production: KEIV
Event program: okytokia publications, DPMS "Philosophy & Sociology of Arts & Culture", AREPO
Coordination and communication: Chrysa Petrocheilou
With the auspices and support of the Ministry of Culture
Opening: November 14, 2025, 19:00
Opening hours: Wednesday–Friday: 18:00-22:00
Saturday & Sunday: 12:00-18:00
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The exhibition 𝕲𝖚𝖙 deals with the poetics of underground existence – it discusses some of the strongest symbolisms of human origins and human destiny that imagination has created. It is dedicated to the dialogue of visual and other arts with literature and its theory. It is accompanied by a parallel program that develops and reflects on the thematic axes of the main exhibition, extending them to new fields.
At its center are placed and contrasted four "archetypal" literary themes with a common atmosphere: the cave, the underbelly, the underground and the tunnel. These are places and forms of depth and isolation, scenes where subterranean forces break through the innermost seals and constitute a unified poetics of descent, stay and exit, but also of the reversibility of the arrangement of "above" and "below".
The aim is to illuminate the similarities and differences of these four motifs and, above all, to explore the narrative and substantive variations that emerge when they are activated within different historical and sociopolitical contexts – thus highlighting certain “deconstructive”, critical theoretical and sociological readings of them. In this way, a shift is attempted beyond the stereotype of the claustrophobic psychographic that often surrounds the isolated hero of existential allegories; an attempt is made to detect the intersections of the grotesque and the absurd, and to see the “undergrounding” of smaller or larger social groups – based on class, race and gender – as an indicator of a changing anthropological condition, but also as a matrix of visions of the technological future. Through this comparative perspective, the organization attempts to map not only the visual and literary traces of the underground experience, but also its transformations as an aesthetic and conceptual core of the contemporary imaginary.
ARTISTIC PARTICIPATIONS:
Evgenia Vereli
Konstantinos Giotis
Miltos Digas
Antonis Kalagatsis
Georgia Karydi
Orestis Karalis
Andreas Ragnar Kasapis
Konstantinos Lianos
Anastasios Panagis Meletis
Marios Stamatis
Kostios Stafilakis
Eleni Christodoulou
James Fuller
Theo Michael
Anna Gonzalez Noguchi
Cezary Poniatowski
Sasha Streshna
OTHER PARTICIPATIONS:
Aris Anagnostopoulos
Natalia Vagena
Lina Velliou
Yiannis Galiatsos
Simos Kalfas
Katerina Karakassi
Dimitris Karydas
Konstantza Kapsali
Alexandros Martigopoulos
Eleni Bourou
Vivi Boutati
Evgenia Mylonaki
Christos Natsis
Yiannis Papatheodorou
Emmanuela Pechynaki
Spyros Polychronopoulos
Georgos Sagriotis
Rosalie Sinopoulou
Stavros Stavridis
Natasha Frilingou
Marios Hadjiprokopiou
Athena Zero
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EVENTS PROGRAM
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FRIDAY 14.11
Exhibition opening – 20:00
Performance:
Kostís Stafilakis: «Dead Brony: The Cave Concert»
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WEDNESDAY 19.11
Event & discussion – 20:30
Topic: «The material-physical "below" in the thought of Mikhail Bakhtin and elsewhere”
Participants:
Yiannis Papatheodorou (University of Patras)
Lina Velliou (University of Athens)
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THURSDAY 20.11
Event & discussion – 20:30
Topic: “On the transformations of the Platonic allegory of the Cave”
Participants:
Evgenia Mylonaki (University of Patras)
Katerina Karakassi (University of Athens)
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FRIDAY 21.11
Performance, Readings, Music
Speech & Performance – 20:30:
Marios Hadjiprokopiou & Georgia Karydi: “Hilda Hilst: Metamorphoses of the Indecent Lady E.”
Readings – 21:30:
Yiannis Galiatsos
Aris Anagnostopoulos (read by Katerina Iliopoulou)
Music – 22:30:
Khmer
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DJ NOT I
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SATURDAY 22.11
Screening & discussion – 18:30
Screening:
«The Belly of an Architect» (Peter Greenaway, 1987) – Duration: 1h. 59m.
Discussion with:
Dimitris Karydas (NKUA)
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SUNDAY 23.11
Screenings & discussion – 18:30
Screenings:
«Death Plan for a Dog and a Man» (Christos Karakepelis, 2024) – 66m.
"Heart of the Angel" (Molly Dineen, 1989) – 40 min.
Discussion with:
Constanta Kapsali
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WEDNESDAY 26.11
Event & discussion – 20:30
Topic: “On Franz Kafka’s “Building””
Participants:
Stavros Stavridis (NTUA)
Georgos Sagriotis (University of Patras)
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THURSDAY 27.11
Event & discussion – 20:30
Topic: “The motif of the “underground” in African-American literature”
Participants:
Rosalie Sinopoulou
Eleni Bourou
Christos Natsis
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FRIDAY 28.11
Closing of the exhibition
Readings – 20:30:
Virginia Woolf, “The Sun and the fish" (trans. Simos Kalfas)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, "The Tunnel” (trans. Nikos Taxiltaris)
Performance – 21:30:
Kay Kay & Athena Zero: “Descent to Alet” (Alice Notley)
Music & Dance – 22:30:
Spyros Polychronopoulos, Natalia Vagena, Emmanuela Pechinaki, Vivi Boutati
