PCAI supports Andreas Angelidakis, who will represent Greece at the 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia.
Andreas Angelidakis presents Escape Room, a solo presentation of new works curated by George Bekirakis. Τhe Greek Pavilion is transformed into a present-day Platonic Cave. Plato’s seminal text is reimagined as an immersive, inhabitable environment, situated within the current era of post-truth and rising nationalist populism. In Angelidakis’s hands, the Platonic allegory becomes a malleable instrument for probing the present, in which the world of images is saturated with digital illusions and cultural replicas. Shifting the focus to the history of the Greek Pavilion itself, the installation assembles elements presented as contested, constructed truths, illuminating both the complex nature of historical knowledge and its entanglement with nationalism and propaganda.
Recast as an escape room, the Pavilion embodies a reality structured like a game, while symbolically confronting the paradox of a building attempting to escape its own “self” and, therefore, its history. Through a plunge into its troubled past, the Greek Pavilion happens upon a “bathroom mirror selfie”, frozen permanently in Year Zero (1934): the year the Nazis began the persecution of homosexuals, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for the first time in Venice following their sweeping electoral victories, and the Greek and Austrian Pavilions were officially inaugurated.
The 61st Venice Biennale will take place from 9 May to 22 November 2026.
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Activity aligned with Goals 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17
