NP or the possibilities of a life, curated by locus athens / Athens

NP or the possibilities of a life / curated by locus athens
Nikos Alexiou, Athanasios Argianas, Natasa Biza, Lizzie Calligas, Anastasia Douka, Farida El Gazzar, George Hadjimichalis, Vassos Kapandais, Kyriakos Krokos, Michael Michaeledes, Kosmas Nikolaou, Nina Papakonstantinou, Zoë Paul, Lucas Samaras, Anastasia Tzakou as well as objects from various collections
Architectural Design: AREA , Architecture Research Athens
address: Tsami Karatasou 51, Koukaki
Dates: 15th May – 30th June
Exhibition times: Wednesday – Friday 17.00 – 21.00, Saturday 12.00 – 16.00





Vassos Kapandais, In the Streets of Smyrna, 1966, Bronze, 35 cm., Courtesy Kapandais family


Kyriakos Krokos, Publishing house office building (unrealised project), 1991, Cardboard maquette, 21 x 24,5 x 14 cm.,Courtesy Neohellenic Architecture Archives, Benaki Museum

George Hadjimichalis, Small Archive of Images (001-100) 1986/1996-1999,From the Archives of “Workshop of projects and images in crisis”, 1986/1996-1999,Wooden archive cabinet on iron base / 100 drawers with mixed technique images, 108,5 x 187 x 34 cm.Courtesy Konstantinos Papageorgiou

Nikos Alexiou, Fear (top view), 2000,Print on matt film, 130 x 127 cm.,Courtesy The Infinite Garden. Nikos Alexiou Archives


Farida El-Gazzar, Untitled (6, 32, 37, 40), 2011, Acrylic on paper 24.5 x 32.5 cm., Courtesy Kalfayan Galleries, Athens – Thessaloniki

A collection of 15 Embroidery Samplers from Fez Morocco 1920’s-1960’s, Thread on fabric (variable dimensions),Courtesy Collection Petros Petropoulos, Paris / Spetses & Nina Papaconstantinou, Ma Chère Maman, 2014, Five drawings with pin-pricks on Japanese paper (dimensions variable), Courtesy Kalfayan Galleries, Athens – Thessaloniki




Kosmas Nikolaou, I Was Given Instructions But I Couldn’t Even Read Them, 2017, Installation (clay pots, and sound recording of a diary), (variable dimensions), Courtesy the artist


Lucas Samaras, Stiff Box no 8, 1971, Acier cor-ten 45 x 35 x 45 cm., Courtesy Private Collection


Lizzie Calligas, Exercises, Afternoon, 2016-2017, Water Colour (variable dimensions),Courtesy the artist


Zoë Paul, Mazeuvie (series 1.1), 2013, Wool and thread on found fridge grill, 56 x 56 x 1 cm., Courtesy The Breeder, Athens


Installation shot with Michael Michaeledes, Sails II A, 1980-4, Duck Canvas, Courtesy Eric Efstathiou & 10 Tsikalia (Earthen-ware cooking pots), 1930-1980, Earthenware pots “Tsoukalia” (variable dimensions), Courtesy Collection of Yorgos Kyriakopoulos 


Anastasia Tzakou, Unititled, circa 1970, Oil pastel on canvas, Courtesy Tzakos family & 10 Tsikalia (Earthen-ware cooking pots), 1930-1980, Earthenware pots “Tsoukalia” (variable dimensions), Courtesy Collection of Yorgos Kyriakopoulos


Athanasios Argianas, Sea a zero, See zero, Zero seas, To see to zero,To sea two zeros, 2017, electroformed copper-plated urethane, dust of foraged red-oyster shell, approx. 35 x 45 cm., Courtesy the artist & Natasa Biza, The Encounter & Demetra, 2017, Two publications, 17 x 23 cm., Printed photograph, dimensions variable, Courtesy the artist


Natasa Biza


Natasa Biza


Anastasia Douka, The sign of the palm, 2017, Jewellery by Ηaris Doukas, soap, glass, wood, 120 x 90 x 75 cm. -under the glass sits the time that my father spends making-Courtesy the artist





Nikos Alexiou, Fear Polaroid (1,26,32,38), 2001, Matte film (polaroid print), 66 x 64 cm., Courtesy Yerassimos Yannopoulos


Vassos Kapandais, Head, c.1971, Bronze, 9 cm.& Snake (date unknown), Bronze, 42 cm.,Courtesy Kapandais family










Lizzie Calligas, Exercises, Patience, 2016-2017,Watercolour on paper (variable dimensions), Courtesy the artist



photographs by Dimitris Parthimos





 NP or the possibilities of a life is an exhibition whose starting point is the life of an ordinary man with an extraordinary collection. NP or the possibilities of a life s a biographical exhibition; however, more than that, it talks about solitary visions, imaginations unleashed and the limitless possibilities of creating worlds, as well as the impossibility of containing them. 
The exhibition suggests multiple systems for structuring the chaos of one’s mind and of creating a taxonomy of objects (as ordered as it is hapless). Art works, handcrafted heirlooms, notes, working books (and other collectibles) are ordered and re-ordered, mimicking the love and pathology of holding on to knowledge, things. Entering NP’s universe, we are transported through a series of artists’ visions, projections and collections into a psychological landscape where hierarchies are overturned. Each work leads us on, as each world drifts into another – a labyrinth of thoughts filling us both with solace and quiet despair. The possibilities are limitless.