The group art exhibition hosted at the historic “Panellinion” in Mytilene came to a close on 18 May 2025, leaving behind images, encounters, and the feeling that a place steeped in memory can “speak again” through art. The exhibition brought together works by 24 artists from Lesvos, under the organisation and curatorial direction of Nadia Liareli, in an initiative that brought fresh life to this iconic waterfront café.
A place with history, hosting the present
For those days, Panellinion functioned not only as an exhibition venue, but as a meeting point: artists, friends of art, and visitors moved through the space, viewed the works, talked, and paused before images that “spoke” in different ways.
Walk off: the city we lived in, the city we carry within us
In the exhibition, I took part with my new body of work, Walk off—a series that began with the urban landscape, but quickly became something more internal: an attempt to capture our relationship with the city, and the way it generates memory, intensity, questions, and emotion.
“Through a series of works of mine titled Walk off, I describe the city we lived in, the city we grew up in—the city we carry within us. It leads us to experience grief and pain, but also joy, optimism, passion, an unbroken curiosity, and a love of beauty. The emotions provoked by the urban landscape give rise to an effort to grasp the ephemeral through primal ideals. The colours are at times soft and delicate, and at other times they express an aggressive energy; my painting seeks not the external truth of things, but the inner truth—the immediate, spontaneous expression of each lived experience.”
Colour, rhythm, intensity: what remains afterwards
In this series, colour moves from soft, sensitive tones to intense, dynamic contrasts—almost as if the city’s mood shifts with the gaze and the moment. Walk off sought to hold onto something of the ephemeral: a sensation, an inner movement, a “passing through” that ultimately becomes memory.
Thank you
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who visited the exhibition, stood before the works, shared thoughts and feelings, and supported an effort that allowed Panellinion to fill once again with light, colour, and people.
