How and why do some worlds end while others begin? How do ends and beginnings intersect, and which transitions and transformations happen in between? Which disappearing worlds are worth remembering, and which of the emerging ones are worth taken care of?

Weaving Worlds is an exhibition about processes of world-building or re-worlding as depicted, discussed or enhanced through art. The experience of the pandemic allowed us to reflect upon what is lost in a condition of continuous acceleration, and what is yet to be gained in order to find ways of living with each other in a period of a generalised crisis. Weaving Worlds addresses the need to reimagine forms of co-existence on an environmental, social or political level. It questions the idea of a one-world world, acknowledging the existence and interdependence of different realities, needs and possibilities.

As part of this exhibition, realities, geographies and temporalities come together. The worlds discussed are at the same time fictional and real, human and nonhuman, cultural and natural, and they seem to be purposely porous and continuously changing. Some of them lie between remembrance and dreaming–that might personal or collective, and others take into consideration the role of contemporary technologies in shaping but also dismantling worlds. They question conventions, constructions and limitations, and pay attention to moments of encounter, transition and mutation between the old and the new with references to tradition but also to digital culture. Video and sound installations, objects and textiles, drawings and paintings build a heterogeneous multiverse, weaving together narratives, practices, media and generations.

Participating artists: Margarita Athanasiou, Campus Novel, Sofia Dona, Maro Fasouli, Dimitris Gavalas, Effie Halivopoulou / Tim Ward / Nikos Falagas, Zoe Hatziyannaki & Constantinos Hadzinikolaou, Charles Hustwick, Andreas Ragnar Kassapis, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Anna Lascari, Michael Lekakis, Stefanos Levidis, MAENADS (Anne Duffau, Eleni Ikoniadou, Afroditi Psarra), Dimitra Skandali, Petros Tatsiopoulos, Nori Tsouloucha, Lina Theodorou, Μaria Varela, WordMord {Onlania tentacle}.