On Thursday, March 21, 2024, CITRONNE Gallery –Athens presents Panos Charalambous' solo exhibition AMVRAKIA.MIA.

It is an installation with sound sculptures, wall-mounted works, and videos. Motifs that permeate the entirety of an oeuvre based on research and personal experiences complement one another and generate new, contemporary connections. The outcome is a "performative landscape," a "tableau vivant," an ensemble of material and immaterial documents: sounds, objects, memorabilia, impressions, mnemonic elements, and archival material that allude to a past, productive agrarian world, and its culture. The in-situ installation AMVRAKIA.MIA, specially made for CITRONNE Gallery, spreads throughout its premises and creates a juxtaposition between the architecture of an urban apartment and the extensive rural, open-air space. It weaves connections that, instead of returning to the past, render it relevant to the present.
 
As in the works that Panos Charalambous presented at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019, Greek Pavillion) and Documenta 14 (Athens, Kassel, 2017), he draws ideas and inspiration from his place of origin, the region of Xiromero in Akarnania; he projects the distinct character of the periphery as a prominent constituent of an artistic "strategy." Adopting an anthropological-ethnographic and experimental approach, he transcribes motifs of local folk culture and explores its surviving influence on the present day.

The exhibition is supplemented by the edition AMVRAKIA.MIA (CITRONΝΕ Gallery and Kastaniotis Editions). Texts in English and Greek by Panos Charalambous, Marina Fokidis, Panos Panopoulos, Tatiana Spinari-Pollalis, and Thomas Symeonidis.