How do we truly live and connect in a material world that’s becoming increasingly synthetic? Upper Ankyle’s latest group show dives into the "Life-World," exploring the fluid lines between human experience and digital environments.
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Exhibition Tour - Syndromes of Synthetic Never
Join us this Friday for a tour of the exhibition with curator Evagoria Dapola @scale_appropriate and participating artists.
27 March, 19:00
Upper Ankyle,
Irodotou 5 Athens
See you there!
Some installation shots from the “Syndromes of Synthetic Never” group exhibition
Panayiotis Andreou, Adonis Archontides, Domenika Georgiou, Konstantinos Lianos, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Marios Stamatis, Michalis Charalambous, Despina Charitonidi, Niki Danai Chania
Curated by Evagoria Dapola @scale_appropriate
On view until 24 April 2026
photos by @stathis.mamalakis
At the opening ✨
‘Syndromes of Synthetic Never’
group exhibition curated by Evagoria Dapola @scale_appropriate
Tue to Fri 12–7 pm / Sat 12–4 pm
On view until 24 April 2026
photo credits: @space.sick_boy
visuals: @vangelis_tzolakis
PARALLEL PROGRAMME
The homeland of our thoughts unfolds as a collective inquiry into how belonging, memory, and place are shaped not only by geography, but by shared narratives, omissions, and fragments of lived experience. The programme approaches homeland as a mental and relational space formed through remembrance, presence, absence, and interpretation; spaces where “third places” emerge.
Responding to fractured archives, displaced histories, and evolving futures, the programme reflects on the gaps within institutional, personal, and collective memory. Through artistic and collaborative methodologies, it explores how communities reconstruct meaning when records are incomplete or silent. Rather than pursuing a singular narrative, the programme embraces polyphony, opacity, and co-authorship as essential to cultural continuity.
Storytelling circles, participatory mapping, reading sessions, and co-design workshops function as temporary sites of encounter. Residents, artists, and researchers gather to re-read archival materials, exchange lived knowledge, and negotiate how memory circulates across generations. Homeland and third spaces are understood not as inherited conditions, but as practices actively assembled through dialogue, interpretation, and care. The programme creates space for stories, gestures, visual ephemera, photographs and fragments to form a shared yet unresolved mosaic. In doing so, we aim to affirm complexity, contradiction, and incomplete knowledge as sources of cultural resilience.
This programme is curated by Christina Skarpari
Limited spots available, DM to reserve a spot.
Activities
Storytelling Circles: Archives, Memory + Third Places 11.2 18:00-21:00 | 21.2 12:00-16:00
Where Thoughts Become Homeland(s)
A Participatory Mapping Workshop
13.2 18:30–21:00 | 22.2 12:00–14:00
The Homeland of Our Thoughts Reading club
22.2 11:00 - 12:00
Εxperimental Co-design:
Third places + What makes a Home
22.2 14:00-17:00
Immersive response workshop to The Homeland of Our Thoughts, designed for higher education students (available upon request)
Showcase of works and thoughts 27-28 February, in Xarkis’s PIKNIK Droushia, Paphos
Countdown to Saturday’s exhibition launch: “the homeland of our thoughts”
a group show curated by @scale_appropriate with @vewerai@_.touk@stelioskallinikou@christos_kyriakides@yorgosprinos@efisavvides@_antonis_
OPENING
7 FEBRUARY @ 11:00 - 15:00
📍Aischylou 83 (across from the Faneromeni School basketball court).
Based on the notion of the third place by Oldenburg, the exhibition focuses on arenas of rediscovering societal practices that are unfortunately slowly becoming eliminated due to the vast capitalization of things we once enjoyed. Advocating for the need of a third place, and considering our contemporary ideas of rootedness, the exhibition brings forward the endless tension between the local and the global, the particular and the universal.
With a parallel programme curated by @christina_skarpari_
Funded by @depminiculturecy
Visuals by @scale_appropriate
Supported by Kartzin x Visual Voices. @visual_voices.vivos
“the homeland of our thoughts” is implemented in collaboration with Xarkis NGO.
A sneak peek from our upcoming group exhibition titled ‘A Homeland of Our Thoughts’, curated by Evagoria Dapola @scale_appropriate
Christos Kyriakides brings repurposed bank vaults, in this work titled «Praying in pixels (οικία Κακογιάννη)» 2025.
A series of salvaged drawers from a defunct bank; material remnants of the 2013 Cypriot financial crisis. Once holding bureaucratic documents never meant to be seen, these drawers now surface as fragile containers of institutional memory and unresolved loss.
Materials: repurposed vault boxes, photograph on Pigment print on 255gsm Vibrance metallic high gloss paper, using archival, pigmented inks.
dimensions variable
@christos_kyriakides
More soon.
Κάτοψη 1:1
a performance by @co.masi as part of the exhibition "Everything Signs Its Name"
Join us, Friday 30, 19.00
The performance attends to what usually escapes notice: the infra-ordinary. Working with adhesive tape as a provisional and fragile material, the artists trace spaces, gestures, and works that no longer exist or are about to disappear. Walls, rooms, and everyday functions are redrawn onto the exhibition space as bodily memory rather than image.
Absence becomes active: works are outlined, re-enacted, and remembered through movement and trace. What unfolds is not a reconstruction, but a rehearsal of inhabitation: a way of staying with what is no longer fully present, and of sensing how meaning persists lightly, temporarily, infra-ordinarily, in the space between presence and disappearance.
EVERYTHING SIGNS ITS NAME
Group Exhibition
Duration
20 NOV- 31 JAN
Participating Artists
Anna Gonzalez Noguchi, Danae Io, Marina Kassianidou, Phanos Kyriacou, Christos Kyriakides, Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis, Panos Profitis, Constantinos Taliotis, Dimitris Tampakis
Curated by @scale_appropriate@danaeioio@marinakassianidou@phanos.kyriacou@christos_kyriakides@aristotelismochloulisart@annagonzaleznoguchi@panosprofitis #ConstantinosTaliotis @tampakis.dimitris
Visuals @clioham
Supported using public funding by @depminculturecy with the help of @oasis.space.cy
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this rich and thoughtful group discussion 🌿
Grateful to Chiara Cartuccia (@chiaracartuccia ) and Evagoria Dapola (@scale_appropriate ) for generously sharing their research and observations after a week of conversations, meetings, and studio visits across Cyprus.
Together we reflected on institutional gaps, cultural memory, and future imaginaries—situating local urgencies within wider Mediterranean contexts. A space for listening, thinking collectively, and imagining what comes next.
The event is part of the programme “Confabulations for Critical Localities”
Video by Natalie Konyalian @snatlenatle
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