My Symbols brings together a group of Greek artists who investigate the personal symbolic languages that underpin their creative practices.
At the heart of the exhibition lies the notion that every artist develops, over time, a constellation of recurring forms, materials, gestures, images, and visual references that function as symbolic anchors within their work. These elements often transcend aesthetics, becoming repositories of memory, experience, desire, cultural inheritance, and personal narrative.
The exhibition invites viewers to encounter these symbols not as fixed meanings but as living, evolving entities—fragments of individual mythologies through which artists negotiate identity, belonging, transformation, and their relationship to the world.

Aggelika Diplari, presents “Cities,Places”:
In the deep night and the freedom of association, within the word “city,” a place, without anticipating where it will lead me, whether I shall experience fear, sorrow, or
joy, without concern for whether it will be beautiful, ugly, right, or wrong. Temples, buildings,ancient cities,ceremonies, crime, metros, taxis, horizons, rivers. In those cities where I harbored a childhood dream to reside, enchanted by black and white films,books and narratives, yet never dwelled, the association of thought ceased,
and the labor of creation commenced. Perhaps this, too, may constitute a form of redemption! Varanasi,Manila,Sri Lanka, Tokyo,Anoi,Karmantoo, as I have fashioned.

Angelos Konstantakatos, presents “My Symbol, the Mushroom”:
A symbol for me, perhaps, is the mushroom. Not because it is something from nature, which anyway inspires me with its materials and organic forms, but because the mushroom is something I admire. It has its own will, its own energy that complements me. It always does something more than I have thought of, it shows me ways in which it wants me to treat it, it always puts its signature – regardless of whether everyone sees only me as the creator. I know to what extent I am me and which part of my creation is its own touch. Whatever I do, whatever material I work with, I have the mushroom in my mind as an example that anything is possible, as long as you can see and understand.

Artemis Valsamaki, presents “Hands” and “Eye Am”:
My personal symbols are very related to a visual storytelling world. As an artist I use them as a vocabulary to create a universal language.
Since most of my stories explore themes of fantasy, mythology, everyday life or dreams to name a few ,through jewelry, these symbols become part of a body-related journal.
As I grow older I find myself more prone to juxtapose contemporary with classical and therefore paying tribute to my roots, transcending time and place. After all this is exactly what is happening while working on a piece. Time ceases to exist.

Ioli Livada, @ioliartworks, presents “what remains”
In dialogue with nature and experience, my personal symbols emerge.
Through traces and gestures, they carry fragments of memory, presence, and transformation.

Konstantinos Papadoukas, presents “Liminal State”:
Liminal State is a series of sculpture – jewelry that unfold in the in-between — the human territory where solitude becomes a site of transformation rather than escape.
Emerging from the quiet aftermath of Sacred Spaces, Liminal State shifts from the pandemic inflicted isolation to transition. It explores the uncertain ground between stillness and motion, presence and disappearance, interior and exterior.
The forms suggest passageways, stairways, and fragments of containment or collapsing grandeur. They hold traces of sacred geometry but loosen their certainty.
Each piece marks a threshold — a fragile negotiation between protection and exposure, belonging and estrangement.
If Sacred Spaces sought peace within enclosure, Liminal State inhabits the moment just before crossing out of it.
It lingers where meaning dissolves and reforms — where we are neither here nor there, but acutely aware of becoming.

Lily Kanellopoulou, presents “Colorful comeback”:
I believe that my deeper desire for beauty, my quest to discover my hidden poetry, to express a thought, a memory, a feeling, what moves me, are all part of my imprint when I create an object. Color and resin are two of my work’s symbols that help me to express what I love. The series “Colorful comeback “, based on crystal forms, express optimism and a playful mood after the happy ending of an adventure.

Sofia Zarari, presents “ETERNA”:
Symbol of ancient beauty, the Venus de Milo, one of the most famous masterpieces of Hellenistic art, serves as the starting point and inspiration for the creation of the six pieces of jewelry in the ‘Eterna’ collection.
The Venus de Milo is a paradox: a mutilated female figure two thousand years old that embodies beauty through imperfection. As for the theories regarding her original pose, there is no statue or work of art that has ever given rise to so much debate. One of theinterpretations suggests that the goddess was holding a mirror or an apple. Indeed, this is how I imagined her, and began to create, in an inner exploration of the concept of true beauty.
It is a constant struggle against time and wrinkles. Standing before the scales, measuring themselves so as to not exceed the dimensions that define the “ideal” body weight required to be considered beautiful and desirable, women are continually being confronted with social pressure to conform to narrow, often unrealistic standards of beauty imposed by the media and the fashion industry.
The “dictatorship of beauty,” as we might call the dominance of outward appearance and its influence on human relationships—where social acceptance is often reinforced through image—cultivates insecurity. Thisundermines the self-esteem of every woman who has not yet reached the point of fully accepting herself and living peacefully with her imperfections through the inevitable passage of time.
Dedicated to eternal beauty, the six jewelry pieces of the “Eterna” collection, celebrate authenticity. They focus on the beauty of the soul that lives and breathes through the years, expressed in the uniqueness of every woman—beyond stereotypes and social norms which only serve to feed anxiety and deprive her of the joy of life.