DIMITRIOS ANTONITSIS

DIMITRIOS ANTONITSIS

FASCIA

On Thursday, May 28th, from 19:00 to 21:00, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center presents Dimitris Antonitsis’ solo show.

The exhibition will run until July 18th 2026.

My recent body of work titled “Fascia” revives memories rooted in my immediate family history. I was always fascinated by the stories of my grandfather, a silk merchant from Soufli, Thrace, who first introduced me to sericulture. Beyond any possible genetic determinism, I too engage in silkworm breeding—not for the final product of silk itself, but as a means of sculpturally interpreting these particular memories. Just as fascia envelops and holds together individual parts of the body, this series becomes a psychoanalytic attempt to connect my sculptural identity with the lyricism of my ancestors’ era.

Guided by sericulture professor Giorgos Gkoras from the Agricultural University of Athens, I employ silkworms in a call for intuitive interspecies communication with my sculptural practice—a communication grounded in the innate and the instinctual. My works, simulations of wood and branches cast in aluminum, are incorporated into the insects’ life cycle (branching/pruning)—or in what other way could they be? The works take shape as a form of social/collective sculpture, depending on the life stage of my tiny collaborators. “How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare?” asked Joseph Beuys in the 60’s. “Fascia” is my answer.

Dimitrios Antonitsis May 2026