Exhibition “WOMEN. Greek Female Artists in Conversation through Time”
Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymno 19.11.2025 – 26.04.2026
Organised by: Alpha Bank Art Collection – Contemporary Art Museum of Crete
Exhibition Catalogue: The publication features 67 representative works created by 53 Greek female artists over a period from the late 19th century to the early 21st.
It includes a time record of the female artistic journey, photographs of the works featured in the exhibition and, finally, short CVs of the 53 creators represented in the exhibition.
It aims to showcase women’s creations as an integral part of art history, and, at the same time, highlight women’s contribution to all aspects of artistic expression.
Edited by: Dr Despina Tsourgianni, Georgia Mazi
CREATION OF VISUAL IDENTITY FOR “ATMOSPHERES AT MY FEET”: NPO LAVREOTIKI’S screening of four video works on the overexploitation of the earth and sustainability, that took place on Saturday, November 1, 2025 at the Greek Film Archive.
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SOLO EXHIBITION THIS MOMENTARY SCENT 29 MAY – 21 JUNE 2025 METS ART CENTRE, ATHENS. CURATED BY NIOVI KRITIKOU.
Like a breath that interrupts time, Aristea Charoniti’s work unfolds in the in-between space of memory and imagination—where nothing remains but a scent. A fleeting aroma, a taste of déjà vu that unsettles the narrative of the present and rises like an uncanny echo of an old emotion.
Her linework is sketch-like, in constant flux—thoughts in a single stroke, splashing with childlike innocence through the whirlwinds of memory. Each piece, whether grotesque or romantic, functions as a psychic trace, a marginal note hovering at the edges of awareness. Her visual language seeks not resolution but tenderness—a tenderness that persists even when veiled by selfish motives, ego, or unspeakable emotional weight.
Her figures appear and disappear like dream episodes we can no longer clearly recall. They leave traces, delicate and fleeting, like figure skating etchings—sliding imperceptibly across the chalices of the tongue: sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet, sometimes tart or acidic. These are images of private thought, of fading memory, of feelings returning with the scent of a face, the warmth of a moment we can no longer locate.
“Was it a dream or did it truly happen? Was it day or night?” she asks herself, without answering. Only a scent remains, stubbornly, like an autonomous survivor of the ephemeral, holding her tethered to the moment.
Aristea’s world is inhabited by dyads—bodies in love or bound by other ties—moments of tenderness and, at the same time, separation. A world where the channel of smell becomes both transmitter and receiver of psychic data. Loss, death, absence, the awkwardness of memory are all faced through the most humble or seemingly trivial moments. A fax that never sends to the beyond, a tangled cable, a gaze offered without response—these form the threads of her contemplation.
Each piece is a temporary mirror of an inner self trying to meet reality, to feel it, to touch it. Yet just before it is grasped—it fades. The fading of the image, the intentional erasure, the shadows and faint traces in her work testify to this very thing: memory as image’s absence, as lingering aftertaste, as olfactory residue of a truth that will never be told.
Aristea’s work doesn’t merely describe narrative plots—it hints. It doesn’t explain, but instead evokes that shiver, that breath held still when something—if only for a moment—emerges that which we cannot remember. If one were to slip quietly into her associative reasoning, one might overhear, crackling:
“I saw you.
On a little cloud above.
You were trying to send a fax and it was funny because I could see you struggling with the machine and the cables.
The fax was definitely meant for me.
I can’t even imagine any other possibility.”
It is there, precisely—in the vague yet deeply familiar and tender—that her inner emotion resides, becoming colors and shapes that intertwine, converse, and eventually surface as immaculate glimpses of the absurd, with the affection of a child’s murmuring. And as her figures fade, the trace does not vanish; it becomes consciousness.
Niovi Kritikou
Art Historian – Curator – Visual Artist
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“WOMEN. Greek Female Artists in the Alpha Bank Collection”, Banknote Museum of Ionian Bank, Corfu. 08.10.2024 – 07.09.2025. Organised by: Alpha Bank Art Collection. Learn more here
Aristea Charoniti 