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December 03, 2025

𝕲𝖚𝖙: on the poetics of underground existence

Group show @PLEX, Athens
November 14 – 28, 2025

Cezary Poniatowski The Room 2024 carpet, zip ties, vents, feather butterflies, fog machine + smoke 60×70×70 cm

The exhibition Gut explores the poetics of underground existence – engaging with some of the most powerful symbols of human origins and human destiny ever forged by the imagination. It is dedicated to the dialogue between the visual and other arts with literature and its theory. The exhibition is accompanied by a parallel program that develops and reflects upon the main thematic axes of the exhibition, extending them into new fields. At its core, four “archetypal” literary themes with a shared atmosphere are placed in juxtaposition: the cave, the underbelly, the underground, and the tunnel. These are sites and forms of depth and isolation, scenes where chthonic forces rupture inner enclosures and shape a unified poetics of descent, dwelling, and emergence – but also of the reversibility between above and below. The aim is to illuminate the similarities and differences among these four motifs and, above all, to investigate the narrative and semantic variations that emerge when they are activated within different historical and sociopolitical contexts – thus reveal ing certain deconstructive, critical theoretical, and sociological readings of them. In this way, the exhibition seeks to move beyond the stereotype of the claustrophobic psychological portrait that often envelops the solitary hero of existential allegories; it at tempts to trace the points of intersection between the grotesque and the absurd, and to view the “undergrounding” of smaller or larger social groups –along lines of class, race, and gender– as both an indicator of a shifting anthropological condition and a matrix for visions of technological futurity. Through this comparative lens, the exhibition seeks to map the artistic and literary traces of the underground experience, while at the same time tracing its metamorphoses as an aesthetic and conceptual core of the contemporary imaginary.

The bodices are hyperreal and totally fake. You feel you can pick one up and fondle it, sniff it, try it on, but no, it’s a dress ghost and we’ll never meet. Collected not from bodices in the flesh, but bodice images in the digital, this left a pleasing constraint – the placement of prearranged wrinkles, topography and invisible sleeves were not her choices to make. They are splayed open to document the inside, purely for… you. So few eyes were ever laid on them – these backs of embroideries that people call the dark sides, so…consider yourself lucky?

 — Kate Sekules

Eleni Christodoulou Zeitgeist 1, 2022 vegan leather, embroidered crystals, 168×78×35 cm Zeitgeist 2, 2023 vegan leather, embroidered crystals, digital print on canvas, various fabrics, 168×80×85 cm Zeitgeist 3, 2023* vegan leather, digital print on canvas, 168×90×85 cm generously sponsored by: The Breeder Athens
Eleni Christodoulou Zeitgeist 3, 2023* vegan leather, digital print on canvas, 168×90×85 cm
Eleni Christodoulou Zeitgeist 1, 2022 vegan leather, embroidered crystals, 168×78×35 cm
Eleni Christodoulou Zeitgeist 2, 2023 vegan leather, embroidered crystals, digital print on canvas, various fabrics, 168×80×85 cm
Eleni Christodoulou Zeitgeist 1, 2022 vegan leather, embroidered crystals, 168×78×35 cm Zeitgeist 2, 2023 vegan leather, embroidered crystals, digital print on canvas, various fabrics, 168×80×85 cm generously sponsored by: The Breeder Athens
EXHIBITION VIEW
Theo Michael No Birth, No Death, Just Petrol 2025 stone, metal, concrete, paint 42×60×33 cm
Theo Michael No Birth, No Death, Just Petrol 2025 stone, metal, concrete, paint 42×60×33 cm
Theo Michael No Birth, No Death, Just Petrol 2025 stone, metal, concrete, paint 42×60×33 cm
Exhibition view
Konstantinos Lianos Hermetic Continental Crust 2025 resin, plastic, aluminium, foam, bricks, wood, book, glass, paper, marble 100×100×109 cm
Konstantinos Lianos Hermetic Continental Crust 2025 resin, plastic, aluminium, foam, bricks, wood, book, glass, paper, marble 100×100×109 cm
Konstantinos Lianos Hermetic Continental Crust 2025 resin, plastic, aluminium, foam, bricks, wood, book, glass, paper, marble 100×100×109 cm
Konstantinos Giotis I forgot your name III 2023 oil on linen 180×220 cm
James Fuller Cold Sin 2025 refined beeswax, calcium carbonate, charcoal powder, 53××55××30 cm (overall) Cold Sin Tension Table 2025 steel, hardware, magnets, 70×120××40 cm, Konstantinos Giotis I forgot your name III 2023 oil on linen 180×220 cm
James Fuller Cold Sin 2025 refined beeswax, calcium carbonate, charcoal powder, 53××55××30 cm (overall) Cold Sin Tension Table 2025 steel, hardware, magnets, 70×120××40 cm
James Fuller Cold Sin 2025 refined beeswax, calcium carbonate, charcoal powder, 53××55××30 cm (overall) Cold Sin Tension Table 2025 steel, hardware, magnets, 70×120××40 cm
Exhibition view
Cezary Poniatowski The Room 2024 carpet, zip ties, vents, feather butterflies, fog machine + smoke 60×70×70 cm
Marios Stamatis Untitled (a fragment concerning the nameless rite of the jade amulet) 2025 mixed media dimensions variable
Marios Stamatis Untitled (a fragment concerning the nameless rite of the jade amulet) 2025 mixed media dimensions variable
Exhibition view
Miltos Digkas Adundance 2025 mixed media 106×100×50 cm
Miltos Digkas Adundance 2025 mixed media 106×100×50 cm
Miltos Digkas Adundance 2025 mixed media 106×100×50 cm
Miltos Digkas Adundance 2025 mixed media 106×100×50 cm
Miltos Digkas Adundance 2025 mixed media 106×100×50 cm
Eugenia Vereli Black drawings 2024 charcoal, ink, pencil and chalk on paper 47×53 cm; 28×37 cm
Eugenia Vereli Black drawings 2024 charcoal, ink, pencil and chalk on paper 47×53 cm; 28×37 cm
Eugenia Vereli Black drawings 2024 charcoal, ink, pencil and chalk on paper 47×53 cm; 28×37 cm
Anna Gonzalez The length of time in space 2024 engraved nickel-plated copper, engraved aluminium, 15××23××2 cm Until the end 2024 engraved nickel-plated copper, engraved aluminium, 15×23×3 cm
Anna Gonzalez The length of time in space 2024 engraved nickel-plated copper, engraved aluminium, 15××23××2 cm
Anna Gonzalez Until the end 2024 engraved nickel-plated copper, engraved aluminium, 15×23×3 cm
Antonis Kalagatsis Loss of tactile feedback 2025 linocut (relief print) with typographic black ink on 600 gsm black cotton paper, aluminum frame, UV glass 50×70 cm
Orestis Karalis Darius 2025 styrofoam, resin, rust 120×100×90 cm
Orestis Karalis Darius 2025 styrofoam, resin, rust 120×100×90 cm
Orestis Karalis Darius 2025 styrofoam, resin, rust 120×100×90 cm
Andreas Kasapis The Right Shelf 2018 oil and colored pencils on wood 40×50 cm
Andreas Kasapis The Right Shelf 2018 oil and colored pencils on wood 40×50 cm
Yorgia Karidi Three Bridges 2022 red clay biscuit, ceramic relief plaque in four pieces, 22×17 cm Lighter Glare 2021 series of five relief clay tiles, white clay finger-painting on red clay with white and transparent glaze, 22×17 cm
Sasha Stresna Hole 2024 oil on canvas 37×62 cm
Sasha Stresna Hole 2024 oil on canvas 37×62 cm
Anastasis Panagis Meletis Inside a cave any light turns green 2025 screen recording 1920×1080 px video installation dimensions variable
Anastasis Panagis Meletis Inside a cave any light turns green 2025 screen recording 1920×1080 px video installation dimensions variable
Anastasis Panagis Meletis Inside a cave any light turns green 2025 screen recording 1920×1080 px video installation dimensions variable
Kostis Stafylakis Dead Brony: The Cave Concert 2025 wood, PLA, plastic toys, metal, silicone, polyure thane, fabrics, plexiglass, 4K video, sound
Kostis Stafylakis Dead Brony: The Cave Concert 2025 wood, PLA, plastic toys, metal, silicone, polyure thane, fabrics, plexiglass, 4K video, sound
Kostis Stafylakis: “Dead Brony: The Cave Concert”, Performance

𝕲𝖚𝖙: on the poetics of underground existence

PLEX, Athens
November 14 – 28, 2025

Artists: Eugenia Vereli, Konstantinos Giotis, Miltos Digkas, Antonis Kalagatsis, Yiorgia Karidi, Orestis Karalis, Andreas Ragnar Kasapis, Konstantinos Lianos, Anastasis Panagis Meletis, Marios Stamatis, Kostis Stafylakis, Eleni Christodoulou, James Fuller, Theo Michael, Anna Gonzalez Noguchi, Cezary Poniatowski, Sasha Streshna.

Curation: Ioannis Pediotis

Production: KEIV

Parallel Program: Okitokia Publications; Interdepartmental MA Program “Philosophy & Sociology of the Arts & Culture”; AREPO

Coordination and Communication: Chrysa Petrocheilou

Visual identity: Studio Precarity | Achilleas Tzallas

Under the auspices and with the support of the Ministry of Culture

Photography: All images copyright and courtesy of their respective authors, photographers and, where applicable, the gallery.

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