Chris Akordalitis, Amir H. Fallah, Zoi Gaitanidou, Ioanna Pantazopoulou, Diamantis Sotiropoulos, The Callas (Lakis & Aris Ionas)
Dio Horia Gallery presents the group exhibition Between Two and Three Meters, featuring works by Chris Akordalitis, Amir H. Fallah, Zoi Gaitanidou, Ioanna Pantazopoulou, Diamantis Sotiropoulos, and The Callas (Lakis & Aris Ionas). The exhibition opens on Thursday, February 12, 2026, at 7:00 PM, at Dio Horia Gallery, and will remain on view until March 15, 2026.
The exhibition Between Two and Three Meters brings together artists working with painting, textiles, ink on paper, found objects, and mixed media—works that all belong to the wall, yet gently extend beyond the familiar dimensions of wall-based practice. Ranging between two and three meters, these works occupy a scale that is neither small nor monumental: large enough to alter the way one encounters the artwork, while remaining closely attuned to the human body and its proportions.
In Greece, this intermediate scale carries particular significance. The dimensions of contemporary artistic production are often shaped by practical conditions: small studios, limited storage space, domestic-scale working environments, and a market that increasingly favors small-format works. Many artists produce works smaller than what their thinking actually demands, adjusting their gestures to the physical limits of their surroundings.
The works in Between Two and Three Meters resist this compression in a quiet yet unmistakable way. They do not aspire to the monumental; rather, they expand only as much as needed to gain material presence, physicality, and a slower, more attentive rhythm of viewing. They ask something modest but specific of the viewer—a step back, a recalibration, a bodily encounter.
Historically, scale has functioned as an indicator of artistic intention. In 1943, MoMA described large works as “statements of confidence and aesthetic conviction,” affirmations of faith in the act of painting itself. Similarly, the exhibition Ten Big Paintings in City Art Gallery Auckland in 1971 acknowledged that even works of medium scale are often materially “unrealizable” without institutional support, framing their production as an act of “positive patronage.”
The works in the present exhibition are neither new commissions nor do they reach the monumental dimensions of those historical examples. Nevertheless, they share the same fundamental gesture: the decision to make something slightly larger than expected—larger than habit, larger than convention, larger than the demands of the market. A steady, conscious claim to space.
Here, painting unfolds as a field; textiles acquire an architectural sensibility; paper and ink extend beyond the page; found materials form surfaces that subtly shift the space around them. Across media, each work explores what wall-based art can become when it is allowed to reach a scale that supports it rather than constrains it.
In the gallery’s basement space (annex), a single small-scale work (under 50 cm) by each participating artist is presented in deliberate contrast to the main exhibition. These works function as condensed gestures and conceptual counterpoints, highlighting questions of scale, materiality, and bodily engagement, and extending the dialogue between artwork, viewer, and architectural space.
In Between Two and Three Meters, “large” is not a numerical measurement but a stance—a negotiation between external limitations and the artist’s expanded internal thinking. This scale becomes a threshold: the point at which the work gains physical presence and the viewer encounters it not only with the eye, but with the whole body.
The exhibition invites audiences to consider how the dimensions of a work shape its atmosphere, meaning, and invitation—and how expanding those dimensions, even by a single meter, can change everything.
