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My Past is a Foreign Country
Group Exhibition


Temenos Hamidiye & Ottoman Baths
Chios Castle, Chios Town

July 8th – August 28th 2023
Opening reception | July 8th, 18:30 – 21:00

Participating artists:

Hera Büyüktaşcıyan (TR), Stelios Faitakis (GR), Nikomachi Karakostanoglou (GR), Avish Khebrehzadeh (IR/US), Maro Michalakakos (GR), Petros Moris (GR), Dala Nasser (LB), Yorgos Petrou (CY), Aykan Safoğlu (TR/DE), Mounira al Solh (LB), Maria Tsagkari (GR), Abbas Zahedi (UK/IR)

Curated by Akis Kokkinos, Founder of DEO Projects


Petros Moris, Sphinx (Waves Whisper Woes), 2023, New commission for My Past is a Foreign Country exhibition, courtesy of the artist and DEO projects, photo: Nikos Alexopoulos Installation view, My Past is a Foreign Country exhibition, Temenos Hamidiye, Chios Castle, 2023, courtesy of DEO projects, photo: Nikos Alexopoulos


DEO Projects in collaboration with Chios Ephorate of Antiquities presents My Past is a Foreign Country, a group large-scale exhibition presented between two historical monuments within Chios Castle, the Temenos Hamidiye and the Ottoman Baths, both inherited by the Ottoman Empire. The exhibition invites twelve artists from Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, and Cyprus to reflect on the palimpsest histories of the island and examine borderland cultures, collective traumas, and forms of iasis.

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Chios island, Greece