{"id":6846,"date":"2025-07-02T08:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinkofserifos.gr\/events\/ekthesi-installation-thalasses-tou-nou\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:52:06","slug":"ekthesi-installation-thalasses-tou-nou","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/thinkofserifos.gr\/en\/events\/ekthesi-installation-thalasses-tou-nou\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-voto Art Exhibition “Imaginary Seascapes”"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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ArtLab presents a selection of works by Christina Anid, a visual artist and ex-voto sculptor.\u00a0<\/p>

OPENING NIGHT:\u00a0 August 3, 2025 at 20:30<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

The duration of the exhibition will be: August 1 \u2013\u00a0 August 17
<\/strong>Operating hours: Mon-Sun 10:00 -14:00 \/ 18:00 \u2013 22:00<\/strong><\/p>

The exhibition Imaginary seascapes brings together various artworks and turn them into one the same way, these ex-voto art works, created from dozens of used orthodox embossed metal plaques, unite separate prayers turning them into one communal invocation. <\/span>Composed of dozens of prayers, the works hold a lot of hope. So personal yet universal, they tell human stories while evoking a magical realm surrounded by sea, phantasmagorical travels above the clouds.<\/span><\/p>

ABOUT THE EX-VOTO ARTWORKS<\/strong><\/p>

Ex-voto suscepto – “from the vow made” – are devotional objects, offerings placed in temples or altars in thanks for a blessing or to accompany a wish, a desire longing to be fulfilled. <\/span>From time immemorial, in all cultures, all religions, men have always believed in the power of intention and have practiced offerings as a means to communicate with their Gods. Since the dawn of time, people have asked for the same things : protection, love, abundance. They pray for the soul of their departed, for the future of their children. Rich or poor. Of any confession. They long for freedom, for harmony.<\/span><\/p>

Around 2012, Anid came across used ex-voto embossed metal plaques on the stall of an antique shop in Athens. Upon looking at them, she saw dates, names, messages handwritten on them and was deeply moved by the loving energy held in these objects. In order to keep them united in a common prayer, she bought them all. Until, two years later, after the passing of her father and in the midst of the refugee crisis, she was <\/span>inspired to create a human size angel, bringing together around a universal theme destinies which were never meant to intersect.<\/span><\/p>

In this series of works adorned with mystery, the artist binds her story with our time\u2019s story as her energy blends with that of the hundreds of wish-holders whose plates she has reclaimed. Anid links the personal and the universal and exorcises fear by telling stories of love, belonging, wandering and wondering. <\/span>In these labors of love, spontaneous, visceral yet laborious, echoes the sound of uprooting, of transformation as well as the call for freedom.<\/span><\/p>

EXHIBITIONS<\/strong><\/p>