Until we meet again

by Eirini Tiniakou

Opening: Wednesday 20.5.2026, at 20:30

Duration: 20.5 – 6.6.2026, Wednesday to Saturday 20:00 – 22:00

“To change ideas about what land is for, is to change ideas about what anything is for.”¹

“Until We Meet Again” by Eirini Tiniakou constructs a space of temporary dwelling, contemplation, and wandering. Through collected and transformed objects – a motor oil container, camping equipment, textiles, ropes, photographs, drawings, and handmade constructions – a body of work emerges that seems to belong to someone constantly en route.

Objects that have already traced their own paths acquire a renewed sense of use and proximity. Their manual reworking functions as a practice of care and preparation; a process through which matter retains the traces of its previous life while being transformed once again into something necessary.

The transition that runs through Tiniakou’s work does not solely concern movement from one place to another, but a broader shift in the way we relate to time, use, landscape, and the experience of passage itself: a search for different conditions of proximity, orientation, and inhabitation.

Wandering operates here as a form of connection and care: a process through which the landscape becomes activated as a field of mutual contact, attentiveness, and transformation; something we touch while simultaneously being transformed through it.

Textured surfaces, textiles bearing marks of use and exposure, soil, sounds, and scents compose an environment where the experience of space extends beyond the image: drawings, soundscapes, and transformed materials function as traces of a continuous movement between departure and return.

Ascent and wandering appear as practices of attentiveness, deceleration, and alertness. The works resemble remnants of a journey that has already taken place or is about to begin: the equipment of someone who has left, someone who will soon return, or someone who returns every now and then.

The work gestures toward forms of use rather than consumption, toward duration rather than speed, and toward a tactile, attentive proximity to the world.

“Until We Meet Again” functions as a promise of reappearance, of a return that concerns the place, the time, and the possibility of inhabiting the world through different terms of proximity, attentiveness, and duration. This journey does not conclude in withdrawal, but in an ongoing process of repositioning oneself within the world – however temporarily, each time.

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¹ Dolores LaChapelle, Sacred Land, Sacred Sex: Rapture of the Deep (Silverton, CO: Finn Hill Arts, 1988), 4.

Text by Marina Verleki

Curation: Froso Pini

Production: Jenny Mazi & Alexandra Tiniakou

Composition of soundscape “until we meet again”: Dimitris Kourtikakis Sponsored by Anagnostou Fytoxomata

About the artist

Eirini Tiniakou is an artist based in Athens, Greece, with roots in Lesvos Island and Mount Oiti. She holds an MA from the University of Applied Arts Vienna and a BFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts, and has lived and worked in Milan, Vienna, and Helsinki. Working across art, education, and rescue, her practice is grounded in field research, combining documentative, participatory, and imaginative approaches. Through textiles, photography, objects, and text, she explores themes of environment, rurality, folklore, and material agency, often focusing on the relationship between land and the self through embodied experience. Through participatory research, she develops experimental visual and applicable creative systems that merge material, narrative, and sensory elements.

Tiniakou has participated in international exhibitions and collaborative projects, including Meet the Universe in collaboration with CERN (2019), Boxels – Sessions at the Venice Biennale (2019), Invasive Spirits at 12-14 Contemporary, Vienna (2022), Ancestral Futures at ViCCA, Helsinki (2023), and On the Sea of my Tttttongue at Gramma_Epsilon Gallery Athens (2024). Since 2025, she has been a resident artist at Living Room Athens. She has received support from the Finnish Institute of Athens, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture, ARTWORKS and is a Fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program.

About antisocial

A room for art. A small space that could fit great things. New artists are free to decide for themselves what is the art work series that expresses themselves. antisocial opens as a safe-house for art, with a mission to ensure that an artist could feel free to share with the audience their most dark moments, their moest personal experiences, but also anything that makes them feel free. antisocial is a space of sharing, inclusion, open for all eyes.

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