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




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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Commission Series x Saskia Calderón

Residency & Performance

10 May - 10 July 2023
Chios Island, Greece

DEO Projects, in partnership with EACHEVE, is pleased to present Saskia Calderón as the Commission Series 2023 artist. Saskia Calderón has been selected through an open-call process, and her live-performance in Chios will mark the first presentation of the artist in Greece. Her residency commences in early May 2023 and after a two-months research and practice on the island, it will culminate in the presentation of a new live-performance at the Chios Castle on July 8th and a video performance available online after July 15th.


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Serapis Maritime
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Public art intervention at Vigla of Pachi

8 July & 8 August

A public sculpture-video projection on Vigla of Pachi: for the first time the stone body of the imposing watchtower is used in the present and transformed into a work of art.


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Live Performance

Vigla of Pachi Open Air Theatre
Tigani, Sidirounta
Friday 8 July 19:30


The British performer Rowdy SS presents a new version of his work Balance: a dance-sound-visual improvisation, a study in the uses of space. The question he poses is how we use space and how, in turn, the space uses us.


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Dominique White 
Commission Series

(Under) studies in Non-Description

Old Horse Stables of Choremiko
20 Kontogianni Street
Chios city

9 July - 20 August
Tuesday to Friday 11:00 - 14:00 and 18:00 - 21:00
Saturday 11:00 - 16:00

May - August 2022
Chios isand, Greece


For the second cycle of the Commission Series programme, DEO projects invited the Marseille-based artist Dominique White to research on, develop, and exhibit a new body of work. The artist stayed in Chios for a 2-month period to explore the island's maritime histories and work towards her first presentation in Greece in the form of an exhibition.


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