Petros Efstathiadis & Marina Velisioti | Other Suns Other Planets: Petros Efstathiadis and Marina Velisioti present their first joint exhibition 'Other Suns Other Planets' at Dio Horia Gallery.

10 April - 24 May 2025

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Artworks
Petros Efstathiadis
Error, 2025
At the core of Efstathiadis’s work is an exploration of the meanings and the powers that manufactured objects can wield and signify, as if imbued with an agency of their own. In his usual practice, once a perfect shot is taken, the artist disassembles the sculptures again, returning all of their constituent materials to where they were originally procured. The present exhibition, however, marks a historical departure from this custom: for the first time ever, one of the Efstathiadis’s assemblages will be physically present in the exhibition space for the viewers’ contemplation.
In the artist’s understanding, all objects “have a certain power that defines and dictates the way the work composed of them evolves. The narrative changes when the object is too dominant. This time, the sculpture took over my narrative completely, and it deserved to be exposed in a space without photography. I felt excited to let it be.”
Petros Efstathiadis’sprimary medium is photography, yet his practice is grounded in the physical materiality of everyday consumer detritus and in sculptural gesture. Efstathiadis’s main oeuvre is comprised of photographs of assemblage sculptures and installations constructed from found objects around the artist’s hometown of Liparo.
Marina Velisioti is an Athens-based multidisciplinary artist whose work in textiles, ceramics, video, sound, and installation engages the themes of esoterica and speculative realities as the ground to discover and explore previously unthought connections and alternative historical narratives that may contradict commonly accepted dogmas.
In their unique, yet complementary ways, the two bodies of work on view in the exhibition propose different angles for a radical rethinking of the current economic and political models dominating the Western world and suggest a vision of the logic of Degrowth that may just help to finally see an alternative to them.
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— Petros Efstathiadis (b. 1980, Greece) lives and works in Greece. Efstathiadis received his BA in photography at University for the Creative Arts, UCA Farnham Surrey, UK. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Gold Rush’, ARSENAL, Met; ‘Invisible Limits/Makeshift Structures’, Thessaloniki Photo Biennale, Thessaloniki; ‘Gold Rush’, CAN Christina Androulidaki gallery, Athens and Galerie Sintitulo, Mougins; and Galerie Clementine de la Feronniere, Paris and Foto Forum Galerie, Bolzano; ‘Invisible Limits/Makeshift Structures’, Sofia; 29é Festival International de Mode & Photographie d’ Hyéres, Hyéres. Selected group exhibitions include: Foto Wien, Vienna; 28é and 29é Festival International de Mode & Photographie d’Hyéres, Hyéres; ‘Realities and Plausibilities’, Xippas Gallery, Athens. Museum and institutional shows include: ‘Ueber Leben am Land’, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna; ‘The Ground We Have In Common’, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso; ‘The Presence of Absence, or the Catastrophe Theory’, NiMac, Nicosia; ‘Invisible Cities’, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York,; ‘Mr Robinson Crusoe Stayed Home: Adventures of Design in Times Of Crisis’, Benaki Museum, Athens; ‘Equilibrists’, curated by NEW Museum, Benaki Museum, Athens; ‘Capitalist Realism’, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; ‘The end of Medea’ Stavros Niarchos foundation Cultural Center, Athens; ‘The Presence of Absence, or the Catastrophe Theory’ in Izolyatsia Foundation, Kiev; ‘Touching from Distance’, Serlachius Museum, Mänttä. Awards include: First prize of HSBC in Photography Prize; Grand prize of Hyères International Fashion & Photography Festival and, shortlisted for the Prix PICTET 2016. Major Collections include: Israel Museum, Jerusalem; MoMUS Museum, Thessaloniki; HSBC Corporate Art Collection, Paris; Serlachius Museum, Mänttä and Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens.
— Marina Velisioti (b. 1982, Greece) lives and works in Greece. Velisioti earned her BA from the Department of Applied Arts at the School of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki. She studied weaving techniques and history at the Historical Textile Factory of SEN. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Monuments to Space’, Untiled Gallery in Sofia; ‘Hate Hard Boiled Eggs, Misc, Athens and ‘Nature Immortelle’, Romantso, Athens. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘Desmos: A Dinner study’, Eight, Athens; ‘Outraged by Pleasure’, Nobel Building, Athens; Turkish Textile Biennial, Izmir; ‘Selasforos’, Anoihta Pania, Chania; ‘Head2Head’, A Project by A-dash, Athens and Kling&bang, Reykjavik; ‘Cra(u)sh or How You Make Me Kiss the Pavement’, Grace, Athens; ‘ΗΛΕΚΡΙΣ / How to Think Like a Mountain’, Samothraki. Museum exhibitions include: ‘Sheltered Gardens’, commission by PCAI Polygreen, Diomedes Botanical Garden, Athens and ‘Matter Over Matter’, Goethe Institut, Sofia. Awards and grants include: Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship 2022.

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