Group exhibition, Ksenoi, Atopos CVC, Athens GR

Curated by Anna Makri

Trace & Spill considers painting as a contaminated and dependent field. Suspended from a stainless steel structure, the painted canvas is interrupted by chains and fluorescent fabric, materials that recall scaffolding, construction, manufacture, and restraint. These external objects do not simply support the work; they enter into its logic, pulling, binding, and reconfiguring the surface.

The canvas itself remains soft, stained, and atmospheric, suggesting a dreamlike bodily space without stable edges or fixed structure. Against this, the industrial materials impose pressure and tension. The work stages a collision between softness and hardness, containment and release, painted flesh and manufactured support. In doing so, it asks what new possibilities emerge when painting gives up the fantasy of autonomy and allows itself to be held, contaminated, and transformed by what surrounds it.

Dates: September 25 - 28 2025