Beneath the Surface: Material Stories of Displacement brings together nineteen artists whose works confront displacement not only as a political reality, but as an intimate, lived condition. Displacement settles into the grain of everyday survival ~ into the textures we touch, the gaps in language, the things we carry with us and the things we are forced to leave behind.
The artists in this exhibition hold space for these contradictions: presence and absence, belonging and estrangement, memory and forgetting. Their works do not seek closure. Instead, they offer a material reckoning ~ an unfolding conversation shaped by objects, gestures, and the silent testimonies of matter.
This narrative is incomplete by design. It forms slowly, like a shoreline rewritten by each tide. We build, unbuild, and build again. Each piece asks:
What remains when home is gone?
What does the body remember when memory dissolves?
What we know is this: materials remember. They fray, resist, absorb, endure. In their quiet language, they reveal traces of who we are and who we are becoming.
This exhibition listens to that language ~ one of resilience, rupture, and the fragile architectures of belonging.
Participating artists:
Alexis Papazoglou
@papazoglou.alexis
Ektoras Theoulakis
@hec.theo
Yannis Mantzaris
@yannismantzaris
Marilena Kranioti
@ematmospherrust
Nasia Karatsiraki
@nasiakt
Natalia Maragkou
@alien.paradox
Patrick Topitschnig
@topitschnig
Somethin Goin Bad
@somethin.going.bad
SPYRIDWN
@sppsath
Vasilis Aggelopoulos
@Vasilis_angelopoulos
Vasilis Vilaras
@vasvil
Yiannis Pappas
@pappas.yiannis
Yorgos Liapis
@liapisyorgosMusic curated by Penny Sotiropoulou
@pennyyaaahCurated by
SPYRIDWN [@sppsath]Auðunn Kvaran [@audunnaudunnaudunnaudunnaudunn] and Nikoletta Georgakopoulou [@nikolettageorgakopoulou]
The exhibition is supported by
Brainshot
@brainshot
brainshot.grNoodle Town
@noodle_town_digital
noodletown.xyzBoutsikas Cellar
boutsikascellar.gr
Website:
https://livingroomathens.com/
@livingroomathens
Time:
17. Jan. – 17 Feb. 2026
Location:
Living Room Athens
Marathonos 71
Metaxourgio
Athens
Open Hours:
Mon-Sun 16 -19h
