💫First wish for 2026💫
Let yourself enter a mystical place.
Find yourself among Others.
Speak gently.
Pass through them into light.
Lasciati entrare in un luogo mistico.
Ritrovati tra gli Altri.
Parla con delicatezza.
Attraversa l’oscurità fino alla luce.
LUMINOUS STRAYS
Until 10/11/2025
Mon–Sat | 9:00–13:00 & 15:00–19:00
Ex Convento Chiaramontano dei Francescani Minori, Agrigento
Video by Alessandro Giuliana, GAP Movie AG & Antonino Albergamo
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#soloshow #efispyrou #LuminousStrays #agrigento2025
"The last two days in London, as a finalist at the Miraban UK Film Awards for Womanifesto, have been deeply fulfilling. Experiencing films by directors from around the world—of such high aesthetic and conceptual quality—was a powerful reminder that we are all part of a greater creative community. A community that struggles, supports, and keeps dreaming, creating work that helps us feel not alone, but connected—like a family imagining a better world. Thank you all for this, and I can’t wait to meet again."
With love,
Efi
"Feminine qualities and identities are often conceptualized in relation to the "gaze" — both how I see myself as feminine and how others see me.
It’s how I look at myself through my photographic lens, how I perceive my body as a model, how I interpret my mind as an artist, how I articulate my ideas both within and beyond the images I create, and how I consider myself through the gaze of others.
This interplay of gazes shapes a complex and layered understanding of femininity. Each perspective — whether through my own creative vision, my physical self, my conceptual mind, or the external view of others — contributes to a multi-dimensional self-perception, blending internal exploration with external interpretation. Here, femininity is not just a static identity but a fluid dialogue between how I construct my self-image and how that image is perceived, challenged, and redefined in the gaze of others."
E. S.
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A retrospective of my artistic performances from 2010 to 2020 on the occasion of the talk "Femininity, Identity, Image", recently held at @cycladic_museum
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Proud to see our film IDENTITY IN BETWEEN presents Marianna Kavallieratou featured in “WHAT YOU WEAR IS WHAT YOU ARE”, a group exhibition at the Benaki Museum (Pireos 138).
Curated by Maria Maragkou, Maria Panagides, and Stavros Kavallaris.
📍 Benaki Museum, Pireos 138, Athens
🗓 5 March – 25 May 2026
The film is part of the Project “Identity in Between” with artists Tzeni Argyriou, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Eliza Soroga, Maria Sideri, Marianna Kavalieratou
Sponsored by The Ministry of Culture and Sports, Greece
Production: RUNONART
Film Concept-Direction: Efi Spyrou
Cinematographer: Pavlos Mavrikidis
Editing: Giorgos Alefantis
Sound composition: Dimitris Tsoukas
Sound design: Dimitris Tsoukas
Assistant Director: Sokratis Morfonios
Camera: Jo Capralou, Costas Goulas
Sound: Iason Theophanou
Dir.production: Haris Michaloyiannakis
Props curator and styling: Milena Panagiotova
Make-up & Hair: Beehive artists|Anna Mpakatsaki
Coloring: Marios Stylianou
Camera: Jo Capralou & Costas Goulas
Props curator and styling: Milena Panagiotova
Make-up: Amanda
Make-up&Hair: Beehive artists|Anna Mpakatsaki
Αudiovisual translation-subtitling: Myrto Koromantzou
Texts-Interviews: Charis Kanellopoulou, Paraskevi Tektonidou
Still Photography: Emma Louise Charalambous
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The exhibition WHAT YOU WEAR IS WHAT YOU ARE, brings together leading Greek and international artists and designers in a compelling exploration of fashion as identity, expression, and cultural force. First presented at the Contemporary Art Museum of Crete Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης Κρήτης in Rethymno last year the exhibition is now open at the Benaki Museum, Pireos Street.
Featuring works by 32 artists and designers, the exhibition offers a bold reflection on fashion as living art and contemporary statement, the underground emerges as a new modernité; camp is reimagined; luxury is liberated from elitism.
Supported by #NEONgreece #SupportingCreativity #benakimuseum #efispyrou #mariannakavallieratou
I feel truly moved and deeply proud of this work.
ACTSAFE has been a journey of listening, care, and collective strength — and it feels very special to see it coming together through the screening of our short documentary.
A small excerpt.
A first look.
A collective voice getting ready to be heard.
Through the experiential ACTSAFE workshops, bodies, words, silences, and manifestos met and slowly shaped a cinematic narrative about care, resilience, and collective action.
The full screening will take place at the project’s final event:
📍 Thursday, March 5, 2026
🕗 20:00 – 22:30
🎬 Irida Cinema (Akadimias & Ippokratous, Athens)
I invite you to be part of this journey.
To watch.
To listen.
To meet each other.
Because when art is shared, it becomes a space for memory, connection, and activation.
ACTSAFE is implemented within the PREVENT – Preventing gender-based violence and violence against children programme and is co-funded by the European Union, the Bodossaki Foundation, and the NGO Support Centre – Cyprus.
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#Actsafe #GenderBasedViolence #PerformativeArt #Care #CollectiveAction PREVENT WomenVoices BreakTheSilence EndGBV SafeSpaces
In most traditions,
salt protects the soul.
Unprocessed sea salt.
The sea as a womb.
Salt as tears.
Purification, memory, return to the body.
In Haiti, Japan, Greece, sea salt
reminds the soul of the body.
Tattoo artist: @eliana.spy
My #soulmarks @soulmarks.tatts
Grateful to @artribune art magazine for the beautiful feature.
My exhibition LUMINOUS STRAYS remains open until January 10th, 2026 — hope to see you there.
Supported by @agrigentocapitalecultura_2025 ✨
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Poster design and typography for “Luminous Strays” and exhibition by @efispyrou
“Luminous Strays is an immersive installation composed of seven woven panels suspended at various heights within a dim, ecclesiastical space. Made of black fabric and high-reflective tape, the works remain nearly invisible until activated by light—through a flash, a camera lens, or a moving beam. When illuminated, hybrid creatures, emblems, and forms emerge as fleeting presences that hover between recognition and disappearance.
The work explores notions of visibility and concealment, identity and estrangement, the embodied and the ephemeral. Drawing inspiration from the archaeological and folkloric landscape of Agrigento—where different cultures and myths have intertwined over centuries—Luminous Strays reflects on multiplicity and transformation beyond fixed definitions of self and other.
As viewers move through the space, light and darkness coexist and exchange roles. Meaning unfolds through motion and attention, turning perception into an act of discovery. The installation becomes a living field of metamorphosis, where illumination is not contrast but recognition—a quiet dialogue between presence and absence, human and non-human, night and day. “
— Excerpt from the curatorial text by Danae Parlamas Pertejo.
For the past two months I’ve had the joy of working with the incredible Block722 team on a project that feels truly special.
To celebrate their distinction as "Architects of the Year", we were invited to create our own kiosk for the 100% Hotel Design Show — a pop-up space that captures the essence of our core identity and philosophy in a single, sensory-rich experience.
Together, with a special team, we shaped "The Sun Salutation Room": a multi-sensory installation where every sense becomes part of the narrative.
A quiet invitation to pause. To step out of the fast rhythm of everyday life.
To feel warmth, presence, gratitude — the simple yet profound act of belonging to nature.
I’m so thankful to be part of this team as Art Director, and I’m already looking forward to everything that comes next.
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Today is the last day of the exhibition — come meet us.
✨ LUMINOUS STRAYS — Exhibition Extended ✨
Very happy to announce that my solo show has been extended until January 11, 2026.
📍 Location: Ex Convento Chiaramontano dei Francescani Minori, Agrigento
🕘 Hours: Monday–Saturday, 9:00–13:00 & 15:00–19:00
All invited to experience the installation in its full sensory depth — exploring light, darkness, and reconciliation with the Other.
LUMINOUS STRAYS
Until: 10/11/2025
M-S: 9:00-13:00 & 15:00-19:00
Location: Ex Convento Chiaramontano dei Francescani Minori, Agrigento
Credits
Artist: Efi Spyrou
Organized by: RUNONART A.M.K.E
Texts: Danae Parlamas
Visual Identity: Typical Organisation
Sound Design: Dimitris Tsoukas
Photography: Maria Siorba
The exhibition Luminous Strays is realized with the financial support and under the auspices of the Fondazione Agrigento 2025
