julia harrauer

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AROUND ABOUT

OpenArtLink
| Athinon 8-12, 18540 Piraeus
22- 26.10.25

Room: 3rd floor, left side

Artists:
Dominykas Cinauskas
Ilias Koen
Nikola Milojčević
Lidia Russkova-Hasaya
Katerina Papazissi
Saulė Šmidtaitė
Curated by Julia Harrauer

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AROUND ABOUT investigates the tension between appearance and reality, exploring how materials can deceive and shape perception.
The exhibition takes place from October 22 to 26, as part of OpenArtLink 2025, an international platform for contemporary art. It is located in the Ioannou Alexiou Building at the port of Piraeus, where the industrial harbour becomes an intrinsic part of the conceptual framework. Ships arrive and depart, while the textures of metal, concrete and rust fill the landscape. The sea is present in its duality, gentle yet formidable. Water appears light, on the calm surface it sparkles in the sunlight. Yet on the open water enormous waves rise, asserting their immense power and bears the extraordinary weight of freighters. In this environment of constant motion and transformation, what appears fragile yet substantial engages in an immediate dialogue with the space.
As a result, each of the five featured artistic positions interprets material transformation and the interplay between fragility and toughness in their own way, revealing how perception, matter, and consciousness are inseparably intertwined. Diverse mediums are reshaped and placed in new contexts, redefining their original properties. Seemingly hard metal plates are made of paper, carefully painted and formed into intricate structures. Other works evoke floral forms yet are made from solid steel, bent with immense force into fragile shapes. Human-made paintings range from naturalistic and digitally generated to hyperreal, while sculptures appear as though salvaged from shipwrecks but are in fact composed of delicate ceramics. Deception becomes a conceptual tool, only revealed at second glance, making transformation tactile as a state suspended between destruction and creation.

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