Baraka Art Space is pleased to launch the second show of the exhibition program of 2023, entitled “Baraka Ab ovo”, commissioned to curator Faidra Vasileiadou to design three different exhibitions for this summer on the island of Spetses.

By launching the program entitled “Baraka Ab ovo”, the curator quotes the Latin phrase Ab ovo which literally means "from the egg, from the beginning". According to Greek mythology, it refers to one of the twin eggs from which Helen of Troy was born, when Zeus had transformed into a swan and mated with Leda.

“Baraka Ab ovo” consists of three Chapters translated in three different exhibitions during this summer, in order to navigate the concept of emanation and rebirth.

For the second exhibition chapter, the curator invites the artist HOPE (Konstantinos Ntagkas) to present his solo show entitled “Chapter Two: Nascent”.

HOPE displays a main body of his artistic experience by producing new artworks with different mediums, but related to his signature style: an excavation of contemporary archaeology.

Carrying the past into the present, the artist transforms vessels and large-scale prints into deeply fascinating entities within a universe of new-age sacred symbols. Like reminiscent of alien forms, HOPE narrates a timeless story of a hybrid cosmos, otherworldly and yet so familiar, within the framework of Baraka’s summer program in Spetses.

Artist
HOPE (Konstantinos Ntagkas)

Curator
Faidra Vasileiadou

Opening: Saturday 1st of July at 19.00 Exhibition duration: 02 - 27/07
Visiting hours: every day except Tuesday, 20:00 – 01:00
Location: Spetses, at the old harbor