47 Circles presents the solo exhibition by Vasiliki Maliopoulou titled DARK TOTEMS with subtitle Relics of Time, opening Thursday, May 28, 2026, at 7:00 PM, at the 47 Circles gallery space in Kolonaki.
47 Circles presents Vasiliki Maliopoulou painting and sculpture exhibition
The exhibition includes paintings by the artist, as well as sculptural works that carry within them the material of time in an almost literal way: in some of her sculptures, Maliopoulou has incorporated fossils millions of years old, transforming the work into a carrier of memory, duration, and geological silence.
In DARK TOTEMS: Relics of Time, painting and sculpture coexist as two aspects of the same internal excavation. Maliopoulou creates forms that resemble traces, findings, or ritual remnants of an unknown time. Her works do not function as simple images or objects, but as silent presences: dark protective totems that bear upon them the wear, memory, and materiality of human experience. The substantial and energetic reconstruction of the old into a new collective visual entity.
Starting from her special relationship with materials, the artist transforms surfaces, fragments, fossils, and textures into carriers of meaning. The organic, the archaic, and the contemporary meet in a visual language that balances between body, trace, and symbol. The sculptural forms emerge like remnants of a forgotten ceremony, while the painted surfaces dialogue with the concept of time as layer, as wound, as memory.
The exhibition DARK TOTEMS: Relics of Time invites the viewer to an experience of observation and silence. Through darkness, time, emotion, combined with texture and materiality, the works project and signify that which remains: the trace of existence, the energy that transforms, the memory that survives beyond form.
Exhibition information
Title: DARK TOTEMS
Subtitle: Relics of Time
Artist: Vasiliki Maliopoulou
Music composition & curation: Michalis Chavantas
Opening: Thursday, May 28, 2026, 7:00 PM
Venue: 47 Circles
Address: 47 Alopekis Street, Kolonaki
