This summer, the island of Syros becomes a meeting point for contemporary artistic exploration as the group exhibition “Traces of In-Between” opens at the historic Ermoupolis Town Hall. Running from July 19 to September 1, 2025, the exhibition invites visitors into a sensory and conceptual journey through memory, decay, and the often overlooked states of transition.
Curated by art historian Eleni Gatsa in collaboration with the independent platform KOREN, and supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Syros–Ermoupolis, the show brings together six emerging artists known for their experimental approaches to form and material.
Memory and Material as Co-authors
Rather than telling a single, linear story, Traces of In-Between unfolds as a polyphonic environment. The works engage with the “in-between” — that elusive space between presence and absence, past and present — through sculptural, sonic, and sensory media.
Natalia Manta constructs fragile sculptural compositions using glass, wax, and clay, presenting the body as a vessel of memory and decay. Lazaros-Philippos Papadopoulos contributes an evocative visual “shelter,” a symbol of both dwelling and fragile collective memory.
Natalia Manta “UNDER OUR BONES Baby” , clay natural wax glass, 29×79 cm
Irene Ragusini’s tactile installations awaken sight and touch, drawing from intimate personal experiences, while Dimitris Tampakis presents a sound installation activated by the movement of the viewer, functioning as a ritualistic memory machine.
Architectural reliefs by Giorgos Triantafyllopoulos reference imagined, almost mythical dwellings, and Sokratis Fatouros works with industrial materials like asphalt membranes to form landscapes rooted in industrial history and shared psychogeography.
By Giorgos Triantafyllopoulos, Without a Title
Art as Threshold and Trace
Visitors are invited to experience the works not just as objects, but as sites of memory that reside on the threshold between what was and what remains unsaid. Ceramic, metal, hematite, asphalt, glass, and sound all serve as carriers of meaning, materializing emotional and historical residue.
Through a multisensory path, Traces of In-Between maps the fragile terrain of lived memory — that which is hard to articulate yet deeply imprinted on the body and mind.
INFO
Exhibition Title: Traces of In-Between
Location: Courtyard of Ermoupolis Town Hall, Syros
Dates: July 19 – September 1, 2025
Opening: Saturday, July 19, at 8:00 PM
Admission: Free
